Discussion
As concerns technology, the realization of WASP (and in particular Pamela) is based on the programming language DLP (extended with Internet capability), and the facilities provided by the hush library and its extensions (both developed by SE/VU, see refs [17,19,20]).
In addition, at the level of design, we exploit DESIRE (developed by AI/VU, see refs [1,2,16,22] of the proposal). In effect, the integration of these technologies (DESIRE and DLP) contributes to the originality of our approach.
From an architectural point of view our approach
is basically a client-server architecture, with agents
as user-dedicated clients.
For the communication and Internet capabilities
we exploit existing technology (TCP/IP, HTTP, CORBA).