Tutorial: Programming multi-agent systems with SARL

Complex software development calls for appropriate high-level features to better and easily tackle the new requirements in terms of interactions, concurrency and distribution. This demands a paradigm change in software engineering and corresponding programming languages. Agent-oriented programming may provide the appropriate support for this change by focusing on a small corpus of commonly accepted concepts and in line with the current developers’ programming practices. This tutorial introduces SARL [3, 2], a new general-purpose agent-oriented programming language undertaking this challenge. The main perspective that guided the creation of SARL is the establishment of an open and easily extensible language.