Steve, Can you please define what you mean by "scalable"? Up to 10,000 agents? 100,000? 350,000,000? 6E^9?
How heavy are the agents to be? > than all of the above? --Doug On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@redfish.com>wrote: > So a few of us are exploring new ways of constructing scalable distributed > agent systems and are playing around with architecting a first instantiation > in either Javascript or in Smalltalk. We are interested in architecting a > system that grow and evolve without collapsing on the weight of itself, much > in the same way the Internet has been able to grow over the last 40 years > without a reboot. > > Relatedly, I was watching Alan Kay's'97 OOPSLA address < > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521>, and his > call for a Universal Interface Language popped out at me and I looked around > for potential implementations since then. Wikipedia claims there hasn't been > one yet: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Interface_Language> > > I was wondering if folks know of any candidates for a Universal Interface > Language that wikipedia authors may have missed. > > And, if we were to make our own, should we start with a REST-like protocol > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer> > supplemented by server-side javascript or other such animal? > > -Steve > > --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... > stephen.gue...@redfish.com > (m) 505.577.5828 (o) 505.995.0206 > redfish.com _ sfcomplex.org _ simtable.com_ lava3d.com > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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