A coordination mechanism to replicate large-scale multi-agent systems

Distributed cooperative applications are now increasingly designed as Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Such applications may be open, dynamic, large scale and exhibit heterogeneous and dynamic agents criticalities. These characteristics create new challenges to the traditional approaches of fault-toleranc...

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Published in:2018 IEEE ACM 13th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self Managing Systems (SEAMS) pp. 130 - 136
Main Authors: Ductor, Sylvain, Guessoum, Zahia
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 28.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Distributed artificial intelligence > Cooperation and coordination
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Distributed artificial intelligence > Multi-agent systems
Computing methodologies > Parallel computing methodologies > Parallel algorithms > Massively parallel algorithms
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Cooperation and coordination
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Hardware > Robustness > Fault tolerance > Redundancy
Massively parallel algorithms
Multi agent systems
Protocols
Redundancy
Resource management
ISBN:9781450357159, 1450357156
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Summary:Distributed cooperative applications are now increasingly designed as Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Such applications may be open, dynamic, large scale and exhibit heterogeneous and dynamic agents criticalities. These characteristics create new challenges to the traditional approaches of fault-tolerance. We focus on replication-based preventive approach. The aim is to dynamically and automatically adapt the agent replication strategy (number of replicas and their location), in order to maximize the MAS reliability (guarantee of continuity of computation w.r.t the agents criticalities). In this paper, we describe a decentralized coordination mechanism supporting adaptive replication. In order to provide a clear understanding of the specifics of our proposal, we provide a theoretical validation and report on experimental validations by confronting our proposal with an existing solution that is structurally similar.
ISBN:9781450357159
1450357156
DOI:10.1145/3194133.3194154