An Additional Rquirement for Agenthood
- "Requests can be formally defined with
respect to a given protocol.
"Replies" to a given request can be formally identified
by explicit unification and protocol definition, known
to all agents within a distributed computation.
Previous definition required a comparison of
performance of a given application for client/server and
peer-to-peer protocol usage.
Now additionally require that degradation of performance
be attributed to missing/additional messages of a certain kind.
"Exception" messages
cannot be unified with a reply.
Replies to "Trace" are not
exception messagess.
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