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Consistency Between Multiple Agent Forms.

An agent capable of morphing never has more than at most two implementations, a platform-neutral and a native one. At any one time, only one of these implementations is active. This implies that agent morphing necessitates state copying from the previously active to the new agent form. We intend to develop methods for full state copying, for partial state copying, and for permitting developers to provide specialized state maintenance methods.



Dong Zhou
Wed Mar 24 00:41:22 EST 1999