Open tasks for being included in the release planning

[gallandarakhneorg]

Below, I summarize tasks related to improvements or new features that could be interesting in SARL from my point of view. We must discuss them, and put them in a clear release planning (with milestones) as we informally discussed during your previous meetings.

• SARL Core Metamodel:
  • Operational semantic of the event handling (Overriding in event handlers #197, Event handling not compatible with inheritance #239, Add the function "postpone" for event handlers. #288, janus-project/janusproject#90).
  • Refactoring of the basic capacities (Use Events to manage spaces #72, Move spawn() from capacity DefaultContextInteractions to Lifecycle #76, Same syntax for emits in default spaces and other spaces #78, Add the functions addSkill and removeSkill in the agents #106, Equivalent of Skill.install for the Behavior class #224, Obtain agent ID from space #291).
  • Space specification, and space implementation in SARL (New keyword: space #105).
  • Implicit synchronization of attributes (Manage the mutual exclusion of agent attributes used in different "on" statements or in different behaviors #208, Improve the event synchronization mechanism  #316, Synchronize in guard is forbidden #322).
  • Filtering mechanism for behavior registration (Add behavior registration filters #252).
  • Semantic of the requires keyword.
  • Holon architecture (Create a way to communicate with the superholon #73).
  • Pre- and post-conditions (Pre- and Post- conditions management in functions: a syntax proposal #9).
• Extension of Xtext tools:
  • Add assert keyword, see the Xtext issue 442320.
• Environment:
  • Graphical User interface (janus-project/janusproject#110).
  • Physical dimension of the environment.
• Introspection and exploration features:
  • Probing of agent attributes (janus-project/janusproject#110).
• Abstract platform services:
  • Easy deployment of agents via dedicated specifications.
  • Migration of agents.
  • Creation of distributed data structure (useful for creating spaces).
• Extensions:
  • Specification of agents with semi-formal language (see Jnario for an example).
  • Organizational metamodel: CRIO (CRIO meta-model support #225), MOISE.
  • Simulation environment (as user-friendly as NetLogo or Gama), possible base: jaak
  • Visual programming language that generates SARL.
• Platform-specific tasks:
  • In agents, use constructor-injection in place of method-injection for setting up the builtin capacities (janus-project/janusproject#109)
  • Refactoring of Janus for replacing new operators by injected objects when it is useful.
  • Refactoring of the service architecture for avoiding issues (janus-project/janusproject#106, janus-project/janusproject#105, janus-project/janusproject#98, janus-project/janusproject#91, janus-project/janusproject#89, janus-project/janusproject#85, janus-project/janusproject#59, janus-project/janusproject#39).
  • Provide a lightweight platform for embedded systems.

[srodriguez]

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