AGENT-SPACE

Real time operation is partially reflected by the fact that in real implementation the course through agent loop consumes certain time which differs from agent to agent. However the major real-time feature is blocking. It means that agent usually sleeps and performs one course through its loop just when a notification is received. Blocking is important from technical point of view as the best prevention of livelock which is dangerous for any simulation of parallel system on platform which is not parallel, but supports multiprocessing or multithreading. Besides that blocking enables to implement timing which is implicitly provided for biological hardware by underlying chemical processes... - advanced trigger which provides also information about names and values of changed blocks (this helps to establish traditional data stream from one agent to another without any losing of some values by implicit sampling)