Structuring Agents for Adaptation

Splunter, Sander van; Wijngaards, Niek J. E.; Brazier, Frances M. T.

doi:10.1007/3-540-44826-8_11

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“…There are also approaches where only a specification of the agent is migrated (E.g. agent blueprints in the Dutch Agent Factory [21]). The destination agency is then able to rebuild the agent based on this specification making use of components the agency contains.…”

Section: Agent Mobilitymentioning

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Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments

Gunasekera

Krishnaswamy

Loke

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Pervasive Services

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Developing software that can support heterogeneous hardware platforms, adapt to dynamic highly variable environments and meet rapidly changing requirements is a challenge of pervasive computing. Dynamic adaptive software agents are a promising approach to develop software for such environments. We previously proposed an agent architecture which brings together features such as runtime adaptivity, agent mobility, platformindependence, context-awareness and lightweightness which are desirable in pervasive environments. In this paper, we propose and analyse a cost model of network load for our runtime adaptive mobile software agents. We compare our adaptive agents against standard non-adaptive mobile agents using this cost model. Subsequent experimental results demonstrate that our agents outperform non-adaptive mobile agents. We also propose and discuss further features which make our adaptive agent based software solution more suitable for pervasive computing environments.

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Section: Agent Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Port-Based Adaptable Agent Architecture (PB3A) [19], Component Architecture for Service Agents (CASA) [20] and the Dutch Agent Factory [21] also contain agents which exhibit compositional adaptivity. An agent-oriented software engineering approach to dynamic agent systems is presented in [22].…”

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Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments

Gunasekera

Krishnaswamy

Loke

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Pervasive Services

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“…One important assumption on which the Agent Factory is based is that the artefacts, the agents, have been designed to be redesigned. This implies, (see [19] for more detail) that (1) agents have a compositional structure with reusable parts; (2) at least two levels of description of agent configurations are defined: conceptual and operational; (3) an ontology to describe the functionality, behaviour and state of agents and their components.…”

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Composing Web Services Using an Agent Factory

Richards

Splunter

Brazier

et al. 2004

Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations

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Web service composition can provide a value-chain between customers and suppliers. The increasing number of services, and thus possible combinations, demands the development of dynamic and automatic techniques for their composition. Current commercial solutions are limited and are primarily static and manual. Automation requires reasoning about (semantic descriptions of) the services. In this paper we describe our initial work involving the semantic description of Web services using DAML-S and how our Agent Factory has used these descriptions in its design process to derive a Web service configuration.

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“…. , φ n y in conflict, the candidate agent with the best extracted k Aj is selected (lines [13][14][15][16][17][18]. This represents a decision taken through a heuristics: k is an amount of weight that can be "safely" extracted from a formula during its partial model checking (see Rmk.…”

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A Formal and Run-Time Framework for the Adaptation of Local Behaviours to Match a Global Property

Bistarelli

Martinelli

Matteucci

et al. 2017

Formal Aspects of Component Software

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We address the problem of automatically identifying what local properties the agents of a Cyber Physical System have to satisfy to guarantee a global required property φ. To enrich the picture, we consider properties where, besides qualitative requirements on the actions to be performed, we assume a weight associated with them: quantitative properties are specified through a weighted modal-logic. We propose both a formal machinery based on a Quantitative Partial Model Checking function on contexts, and a run-time machinery that algorithmically tries to check if the local behaviours proposed by the agents satisfy φ. The proposed approach can be seen as a run-time decomposition, privacysensitive in the sense agents do not have to disclose their full behaviour.

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Structuring Agents for Adaptation

Cited by 23 publications

References 32 publications

Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments

Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments

Composing Web Services Using an Agent Factory

A Formal and Run-Time Framework for the Adaptation of Local Behaviours to Match a Global Property

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