Zhisheng Huang
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XSTEP: An XML-based Markup Language for Embodied Agents
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Abstract
In this paper we propose a XML-based markup language for embodied agents, called XSTEP, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is XML-encoded STEP. STEP is developed on the formal se-mantics of dynamic logic, and has been implemented in the distributed logic programming language DLP, a tool for the implementation of 3D web agents. In this paper, we discuss the issues of markup language design for embodied agents and several aspects of the implementation and application of XSTEP.
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