Fault Tolerance through Interaction and Mutual Cooperation in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems

Rade Stanković, Maja Štula

2013

Abstract

Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) are well suited for development of complex, distributed systems. In its essence MAS is a distributed system that consists of multiple agents working together to solve common problems. Failure handling is an important property of large scale MAS because the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts, deployed agents and the duration of agent’s task execution. Numerous approaches have been introduced to deal with some aspects of the failure handling. However, absence of centralized control and large number of individual intelligent components makes it difficult to detect and to treat errors. Risk of uncontrollable fault propagation is high and can seriously impact the performance of the system. Although existing research has been extensive, it still needs to attend the MAS failure handling problem in all its aspects, which makes this topic very interesting. We propose a concept of agent interaction that enables any hierarchical MAS to become fault tolerant, regardless of the used agent framework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Stanković R. and Štula M. (2013). Fault Tolerance through Interaction and Mutual Cooperation in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 337-344. DOI: 10.5220/0004182003370344

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Rade Stanković and Maja Štula},
title={Fault Tolerance through Interaction and Mutual Cooperation in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={337-344},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004182003370344},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Fault Tolerance through Interaction and Mutual Cooperation in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Stanković R.
AU - Štula M.
PY - 2013
SP - 337
EP - 344
DO - 10.5220/0004182003370344