REST-A: An agent virtual machine based on REST framework
Abstract
This article describes a framework based on agent concepts and REST architectural style and an agent virtual machine along with its operational semantics. Whithin this framework agents' actions are considered as manipulation of resources within environments using only a limited set of primitives. This makes both the agent abstract machine and its operational semantics easy to comprehend and the implementation straightforward. Finally, we evaluate performances of our implementation using a simple benchmark application.