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Generating and supporting dynamic heterogeneous MAS

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posted on 2006-12-01, 00:00 authored by G T Jayaputera, Arkady ZaslavskyArkady Zaslavsky, Seng LokeSeng Loke
One of the grand challenges in agent technology research is quasi-automatic development of heterogeneous and dynamic multiagent systems using Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) tools. This paper presents an innovative approach to developing and supporting multiagent systems at run-time. Multiagent systems (MASs) can and should be generated dynamically based on high-level user specifications which are transformed into a mission. Dynamically generating agents could also be offered as a pervasive service. Heterogeneity of MASs refers to diverse functionality and constituency of the system which include mobile as well as host associated software agents. This paper proposes and demonstrates on-demand and just-in-time agent generation approach which is combined with run-time support for MASs. Run-time support is based on mission cost-efficiency and objectives which enable termination, generation, injection and replacement of software agents as the mission evolves. We present the formal underpinning of our approach and describe the prototype tool - called eHermes, which has been implemented using specific agent platforms. Lessons and results of testing eHermes are reported and analyzed.

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Event

ICPS ACC/IEEE Pervasive Services. International Conference (2006 : Lyon, France)

Volume

2006

Pagination

78 - 87

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Location

Lyon, France

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

Start date

2006-06-26

End date

2006-06-29

ISBN-13

9781424402373

ISBN-10

1424402379

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2006, IEEE

Title of proceedings

ICPS 2006 :Proceedings of the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services

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