DIET Agents

Support for remote communication (between agents on different machines) has been massively improved. There is now a robust and efficient implementation of Mirror agents which offers transparant remote communication. Furthermore, message channels are provided as another way of remote communication. There are new sample applications to demonstrate both remote communication schemes. In the core layer, the use of sockets has been generalised, and socket I/O errors can now be monitored. Many other improvements have been made as well, and several minor bugs have been fixed.