Email Metaphor
- an agent is uniquely identified by its email address:
agent27@mozart-oz.org
- there is a mailbox where incoming messages accumulate
sequentially awaiting processing
- the agent sequentially retrieves and processes messages:
repeat
- wait until a msg is available
- retrieve and process msg
- Actors: computation model for active agents (Carl Hewitt [77], Gul
Agha [86])