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Reliable behavior of systems of autonomous agents – such as collections of deployed robots – is difficult to attain. Agents could provide mutual support, but lack of coordination may weaken, rather than increase reliability. We propose collective reuse of replaceable software components among autonomous agents, based upon a shared factory architecture. Coordinated replacement is achievable on-the-fly, whatever the component status: idle, runnable or actually running. Replacement propagation among agents grows faster with increasing numbers of agents for practical collection sizes, as measured by a reliability speedup. The architecture was demonstrated by simulations combining real and virtual robots.
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Exman, I., Zohar, G., Hassin, Y. (2008). Collective Reuse of Software Components Speeds-Up Reliability. In: Mei, H. (eds) High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems. ICSR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5030. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68073-4_29
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