Dynamically Generated User-Specified MAS

Jayaputera, Glenn; Zaslavsky, Arkady; Loke, Seng W.

doi:10.1007/11752660_11

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“…The issue of continuous design change/adaptation in MAS organizations has been the subject of several studies [9,13,18,21,23]. For instance, the approach proposed in [23] is concerned with the agents generation at run-time in response to changes in requirements or in the environment.…”

Section: Related Aose Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptable Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of the Gaia Methodology

Cernuzzi

Molesini

Omicini

et al. 2011

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Changes and adaptations are always necessary after the deployment of a multi-agent system (MAS), as well as of any other type of software systems. Some of these changes may be simply perfective and have local impact only. However, adaptive changes to meet new situations in the operational environment of the MAS may impact globally on the overall design. More specifically, those changes usually affect the organizational structure of the MAS. In this paper we analyze the issue of design change/adaptation in a MAS organization, and the specific problem of how to properly model/design a MAS so as to make it ready to adaptation. Special attention is paid to the Gaia methodology, whose suitability in dealing with adaptable MAS organizations is discussed also with the help of an illustrative application example.

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Section: Related Aose Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, the approach proposed in [23] is concerned with the agents generation at run-time in response to changes in requirements or in the environment. However, the specific problems of how to properly analyze, design, and develop a MAS so as to make it ready to adaptation is definitely under-studied.…”

Section: Related Aose Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptable Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of the Gaia Methodology

Cernuzzi

Molesini

Omicini

et al. 2011

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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“…A level in the graph theory is used to specify the depth of a node from the root node [1]. In our approach, we assume that for every single agent that exists in the system, there is a cost involved.…”

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“…On average, the time complexity of the cost efficient mission execution algorithm is ( log ) O n n and 2 ( ) O n in the worst scenario, for n being the number of tasks. The complexity time is directly related to Quicksort as indicated in [1,4].…”

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Generating and Supporting Dynamic Heterogeneous MAS

Jayaputera

Zaslavsky

Loke

2006 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services

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Abstract-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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Dealing with Adaptive Multi-agent Organizations in the Gaia Methodology

Cernuzzi

Zambonelli

2006

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI

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Dynamically Generated User-Specified MAS

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Adaptable Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of the Gaia Methodology

Adaptable Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of the Gaia Methodology

Generating and Supporting Dynamic Heterogeneous MAS

Dealing with Adaptive Multi-agent Organizations in the Gaia Methodology

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