Subject: Re: State machine for "empty" agents
From: Reinhard Gotzhein (gotzhein#informatik.uni-kl.de)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 05:42:03 GMT
On 31 May, Thomas Weigert wrote:
> My intuition is that every agent should have behavior. If none is explicitly
> defined in terms of a state machine, then the behavior is determined by the
> contained agents (e.g., stops when all contained agents stop) or immediately
> stops otherwise.
>
> This could be accomplished by having an implicit state machine that just
> transitions into the stop state from the initial state,
... after its substructure has been completely created! If this
stop-transition is executed "too early", i.e., if there is no
substructure yet, then the agent instance ceases to exist right
after its creation.
Reinhard
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