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We demonstrate how concepts of communicating agents can be integrated into purely functional languages by an orthogonal extension of I/O monads. These agents communicate via so-called service access points and foster concurrent programming in the style of client-server architectures. By applying our approach to the realization of graphical user interfaces it turns out that the combination of functional expressiveness and concurrency monads yields a powerful framework for such systems.
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Frauenstein, T., Grieskamp, W., Pepper, P., Südholt, M. (1996). Communicating functional agents and their application to graphical user interfaces. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Pottosin, I.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62064-8_32
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