[FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

[Steve Smith]

OK... It is all I can do to avoid a segue into Soylent Green analogies... 

- SS
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> But yes, given the other meaning of execution, I agree with you with 
> respect to how to probably handle the death and garbage collection. I 
> suspect we might adopt more of an cellular apotosis model 
> <http://evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Apoptosis.html> where 
> agents remove themselves unless they constantly receieve a 
> keep-alive-message from other agents. There's also the idea that there 
> should be a mechanism where agents will migrate away from the edge of 
> the network where users are to lower cost, high latency parts of the 
> network when they are less in demand - a kind of cold storage.
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> -S
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