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Agent-based applications are executed as sets of complex tasks, each of which is defined or planned as a set of cooperative roles to be executed by a dynamic set of autonomous processes, called agents. The composition of the agent-based system may be dynamic, in that agents can enter and leave the system at will. The agents may also be unstable, due to unstable hardware, processes, and communication channels. Agents in such a system need to be able to bring to bear their intelligence and autonomy on the problem of maintaining application stability. This means that the agent services / roles must be designed defensively, anticipating and avoiding failures inherent when other agents leave the system. Some defense mechanisms include the ability to design roles that are mobile, transient and/or distributed across several agents. Such mechanisms should be supported generically by the underlying agent infrastructure. In this paper, we discuss specific features agent infrastructures can implement to facilitate implementation of these defensive roles.
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Nodine, M. (2003). Communication and Coordination Support for Mobile, Transient and Distributed Agent Applications. In: Truszkowski, W., Hinchey, M., Rouff, C. (eds) Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems. WRAC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2564. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45173-0_22
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