The STL++ Coordination Language: Application to Simulating the Automation of a Trading System

This paper introduces the STL++ coordination language, a C++-based language binding of the ECM coordination model. STL++ applies theories and techniques known from coordination theory and languages in distributed computing to try to better formalise communication and coordination in distributed multi-agent applications. STL++, as such, may be seen as a preliminary agent language which allows the organisational structure or architecture of a multi-agent system to be described, with means to dynamically reconfigure it. It is aimed at giving basic constructs for distributed implementations of generic multi-agent platforms, to be run on a LAN of general-purpose workstations. We illustrate the application of STL++ to a real case study, namely the application to simulating the automation of a trading system.

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