Network Perspective

Decentralized Coordination of Heterogeneous Ensembles Using Jadex

“…This is necessary, as the communication graph in a network might not be fully connected at all times and knowledge about tasks and their status can be lost with a certain probability. By gossiping information about tasks and their status, the chance of task fulfillment can be maximized while the risk of executing a task multiple times is minimized -always keeping in mind that the loss of information can never be canceled out completely [4]. For simplification, we assume a reliable WiFi communication.…”

Towards Self-Organizing Swarms of Reconfigurable Self-Aware Robots

“…Hence, Blackboard Agents have the responsibility to distribute information about new tasks and their status on an inter-device level by communicating with other reachable Blackboard Agents. This is necessary to reduce the risk of loosing information about tasksalbeit there are no guarantees especially in dynamic wireless communication networks [17] -as information loss could reduce the system performance significantly (e.g., tasks are re-executed although they were already solved, or tasks are not executed at all). Therefore, Blackboard Agents gossip relevant information as soon as their information status has changed.…”