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How Clojure's agents compare to Scala's actors?

I wrote a simulation of the Ring network topology in Scala (source here) (Scala 2.8 RC7) and Clojure (source here) (Clojure 1.1) for a comparison of Actors and Agents. While the Scala version shows almost constant message exchange rate as I…
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What is the difference between Clojure's "send" and "send-off" functions with respect to dispatching an action to an agent?

The Clojure API describes these two functions as: (send a f & args) - Dispatch an action to an agent. Returns the agent immediately. Subsequently, in a thread from a thread pool, the state of the agent will be set to the value of: (apply action-fn…
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Robots.txt - What is the proper format for a Crawl Delay for multiple user agents?

Below is a sample robots.txt file to Allow multiple user agents with multiple crawl delays for each user agent. The Crawl-delay values are for illustration purposes and will be different in a real robots.txt file. I have searched all over the web…
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How can I associate a project to an agent pool on TeamCity?

For my automated tests I have a project added to TeamCity server and 2 Agent Pool, one is a Windows Server and the other one is a MAC. The default agent pool is WIN but I wanted to run my tests on the MAC server. To change the agent pool to MAC, I…
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Map Reduce with F# agents

After playing with F# agents I tried to do a map reduce using them. The basic structure I use is: map supervisor which queues up all the work to do in its state and receives work request from map workers reduce supervisor does the same thing as…
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MailboxProcessor.PostAndReply design choice

Looking at: member this.PostAndReply : (AsyncReplyChannel<'Reply> -> 'Msg) * ?int -> 'Reply I can't figure out why the signature looks so counter-intuitive to me. What we want to do is posting a message to an agent, and wait for a reply. Why do we…
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Test URLs for SNMP Agents

I am trying to find a list of URLs for SNMP agents which I could make use of for testing purposes. Up till now I have made use of the NET-SNMP test url - > test.net-snmp.org. I've also made use of Verax Simulator to simulate a particular agent.…
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Is it reasonable to view highly autonomous actors as agents?

Coming from an academic background in mutli-agent systems (developed in Java using JADE) I have only been peripherally aware of the Actor concurrency paradigm. Now that I've started exploring Scala I couldn't help but be struck by the similarities…
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Multithreaded bouncing balls program using agents in Clojure

I have written a multithreaded bouncing balls program in clojure. After starting the animation thread, I do- (send-balls) to start the bouncing balls threads. The balls dont move and this is displayed on the console - (#
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How can I stop a specific agent in Clojure? When are their states garbage-collected?

If an agent is working through its queue in the background in Clojure, how can I stop it without stopping all agents? When I am finished with an agent and I let it fall out of scope AND it finishes working on its queue, is it garbage collected along…
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How to create containers and add agents into it in JADE?

I'm just a beginner at JADE. I would like to know how to create containers other than the main container and add multiple agents into it. A full code of creation would be appreciated. Thanks!
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How do intelligent agents accept an organizational structure and shape their whole paradigm?

I want to change the whole structure of a multi agent system an introduction to multi agent organizational paradigms- by Mr. Horling, I mean I want to measure a multi agent system's performance and under some circumstances I need to ask the multi…
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NetLogo: Finding the average value of a set of turtles

I'm trying to implement a monitor in the user interface that displays the average value of a variable shared by a breed of turtles (turtles own). Does anyone know of a method of collecting all the values, adding them together and dividing by the…
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publishing artifacts is to slow

At the end of my build log i have the following: [15:16:22]: Publishing artifacts (25m:29s) [15:16:22]: [Publishing artifacts] Paths to publish: [automation/artifacts] [15:16:23]: [Publishing artifacts] Sending files i tried reading the agents log…
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Which errors to handle in clojure REST+disk-I/O app?

I have a server application which, somewhat simplified, periodically takes measurements via a rest-api from a not beefy-enough-server. The values should be cached locally (and are timestamped/immutable), maybe stored as a FloatBuffer where every…
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