Agent Coordination via Scripting Languages

In this chapter, it is not our goal to focus on basic coordination models and abstractions of scripting languages alone. We would like to view coordination from a different perspective, set the relation to other approaches which aim at separating independent concerns into deployable entities, in particular to component-based software development, and discuss the influence of scripting on building applications as assemblies of these entities. Furthermore, we would like to stress the fact that scripting languages do not only allow us to coordinate distributed agents, but also to implement the agents themselves as scripts.