[Modeling] Modeling an Agent Class- register your opinion

Dr. Hong Zhu hzhu@brookes.ac.uk
Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:49:46 +0100


This is a good point. In my opinion, both AgentClassifier and AgentClass
give the same impression that could leads to unnessary complexity. I
entirely agree with Gerd.

- Hong


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wagner, G.R." <G.R.Wagner@tm.tue.nl>
To: "Paola Turci " <turci@ce.unipr.it>; "James Odell "
<email@jamesodell.com>; "ModelingTC " <modeling@fipa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Modeling] Modeling an Agent Class- register your opinion


> > I think that AgentClass could be an unfortunate choice. Actually, for
> > now I have no a good proposal, however since I think that it would be
better
> > to extend Classifier, maybe a more appropriate choice could be
AgentClassifier.
>
> Why should this make sense? Classifier is an auxiliary technical term
> to have a generalization of Class, Association, AssociationClass,
> DataType and some other things. Your proposal seems to suggest that
> there is, likewise, a reason to generalize similar things for agents.
> But there is no "AgentAssociation", "AgentDataType" and the like.
>
> -Gerd
>
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