Actors are not the same as agents. Actors have their own process calculus, and are based on ideas about time, ordering and simultaneity drawn from physics. I d

Actors are not the same as agents. Actors have their own process calculus, and are based on ideas about time, ordering and simultaneity drawn from physics. I don't know that agents in the Clojure sense have been studied in a comp sci sort of way. (Some agent systems have been studied - I'm not sure how much transfers to this design.)