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An agent model for fault-tolerant systems

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Avelino Francisco Zorzo,

Felipe Rech MeneguzziAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 60 - 65

https://doi.org/10.1145/1066677.1066696

Published: 13 March 2005 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes the use of fault tolerance in a multi-agent system. Such an approach is based on the modeling of autonomous agents with planning capabilities. These capabilities are used by the agent to recover from faults occurring in its surrounding environment, e.g. hardware faults, or in its internal representation thereof, e.g. software faults. The expected fault-tolerant behavior is tested using fault injection either in the system described by the agent or in the environment in which the agent (system) is embedded into.

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Dimakis NSoldatos JPolymenakos LBürkle APfirrmann USutschet G(2018)Agent-based architectural framework enhancing configurability, autonomy and scalability of context-aware pervasive servicesAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-009-9101-121:1(36-68)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10458-009-9101-1
Mookdarsanit PGertphol S(2013)Light-weight operation of a failover system for Cloud computing2013 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST)10.1109/KST.2013.6512785(42-46)Online publication date: Jan-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/KST.2013.6512785
Bürkle ADimakis NKarl RMüller WPfirrmann USchenk MSutschet G(2009)Building Scalable Services: The CHIL Agent FrameworkComputers in the Human Interaction Loop10.1007/978-1-84882-054-8_28(341-352)Online publication date: 2009
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-054-8_28

Index Terms

An agent model for fault-tolerant systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software fault tolerance

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SAC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing

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ISBN:1581139640

DOI:10.1145/1066677

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Kennesaw State University
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
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Alma Mater Studiorum, Universita di Bologna, Italy
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Univerity of Tulsa, OK

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Dimakis NSoldatos JPolymenakos LBürkle APfirrmann USutschet G(2018)Agent-based architectural framework enhancing configurability, autonomy and scalability of context-aware pervasive servicesAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-009-9101-121:1(36-68)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10458-009-9101-1
Mookdarsanit PGertphol S(2013)Light-weight operation of a failover system for Cloud computing2013 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST)10.1109/KST.2013.6512785(42-46)Online publication date: Jan-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/KST.2013.6512785
Bürkle ADimakis NKarl RMüller WPfirrmann USchenk MSutschet G(2009)Building Scalable Services: The CHIL Agent FrameworkComputers in the Human Interaction Loop10.1007/978-1-84882-054-8_28(341-352)Online publication date: 2009
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-054-8_28

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