document: MACLP : multi agent constraint logic programming Multi agent systems -LRB- MAS -RRB- have become the key technology for decomposing complex problems in order to solve them more efficiently , or for problems distributed in nature . However , many industrial applications , besides their distributed nature , also involve a large number of parameters and constraints , i.e. they are combinatorial . Solving such particularly hard problems efficiently requires programming tools that combine MAS technology with a programming schema that facilitates the modeling and solution of constraints . This paper presents MACLP -LRB- multi agent constraint logic programming -RRB- , a logic programming platform for building , in a declarative way , multi agent systems with constraint-solving capabilities . MACLP extends CSPCONS , a logic programming system that permits distributed program execution through communicating sequential Prolog processes with constraints , by providing all the necessary facilities for communication between agents . These facilities abstract from the programmer all the low-level details of the communication and allow him to focus on the development of the agent itself
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