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  | ALF was an ambitious project to create a web-friendly, agent-based choreography language that (in part) will support advanced virtual enterprise, process-centric federation. ALF is an agent system that employs several advanced and risky ideas: Processes as Haskell functions as autonomous agents; Standard XML ontology import; Multilevel emergence; Soft modeling; Concept lattices; Metaphoric visualization. It was anchored by the Advanced Enterprise Research Office at Old Dominion University and Fusecap, Inc, with core funding from the Deapartment of Defense. The project has been put on hold while the economy recovers. Meanwhile, key technologies and concepts are being implemented in the ALICE project, the somewhat more radical client side. When ALF gets started again, it will have to incorporate the standard web choreography language and process ontology standards if any emerge. The announcement website for ALF is stored here for archival purposes. All relevant technical data is duplicated and greatly expanded under the ALICE project. | ||||||||||||
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