Re: communication between agents

[Paul E. Johnson]

iwata wrote:
> 
> Dear everybody,
> 
> I am a new comer for this list and multi-agent field.
> I would like some agents to communicate.  For example,
> Bug1 says "I am hungry," and
> Bug2 responds to Bug1 "I found food at site A."

I think there is an example like that in the HelloWorld app in the
swarmapps package.

If I were doing this, here is what I'd do. I'd probably create a class
to old the message.  Suppose it is called Mesg.  That class is created
in case I need to pass complicated information, such as several
coodrdinates.

In your bug class, write methods like


- receiveMessage: (Mesg*) x;

The body of the sendMessage has
- sendMessage: (Mesg*) x To: (Mesg*) y;
{
        [y receiveMessage: x];
        return self;
}

The receiveMessage method has stuff to get the information out of the
Mesg object and decide what to do
 
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