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Abstract | In this work we discussanumber of issues for the design of hypertext systems in an agent-based model of computation. We examine how the \traditional " fundamental concepts whichare at the basis of the design of hypertexts can be re-visited under a new perspective of collaborative expert agents. The paper presents how some principles of high-level concurrent programming are applied as new methodologies for the design and development of complex software, such ashypertext systems. By adopting an agent-based framework, we gainpowerful control on version management that presents considerable di culties for the developmentofhypertext systems � a general distributed version control mechanism is applied, without signi cant di erences, both in single-user and in collaborative multiuser mode. In both cases, the underlying hypertext architecture is de ned in terms of computational agents interacting each other in order to accomplish common goals. In this paper we present a rst-level prototype implemented in a concurrent object-oriented language, realized on the top of the Common

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