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Can Space Applications Benefit from Intelligent Agents?

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Autonomic Computing and Communications Systems (AUTONOMICS 2009)

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The work reported in this paper proposes a Swarm-Array computing approach based on ’Intelligent Agents’ to apply autonomic computing concepts to parallel computing systems and build reliable systems for space applications. Swarm-array computing is a swarm robotics inspired, novel computing approach considered as a path to achieve autonomy in parallel computing systems. In the intelligent agent approach, a task to be executed on parallel computing cores is considered as a swarm of autonomous agents. A task is carried to a computing core by carrier agents and can be seamlessly transferred between cores in the event of a predicted failure, thereby achieving self-* objectives of autonomic computing. The approach is validated on a multi-agent simulator.

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  1. Active Robotics Laboratory, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, UK, RG6 6AY

    Blesson Varghese

  2. School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, UK, RG6 6AY

    Gerard McKee

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 50100, Kozani, Greece

    Athanasius V. Vasilakos

  2. Universita‘di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Ariosto 25, 00100, Rome, Italy

    Roberto Beraldi

  3. Computer Science Department, Technion, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Roy Friedman

  4. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Marco Mamei

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Varghese, B., McKee, G. (2010). Can Space Applications Benefit from Intelligent Agents?. In: Vasilakos, A.V., Beraldi, R., Friedman, R., Mamei, M. (eds) Autonomic Computing and Communications Systems. AUTONOMICS 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11482-3_13

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