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Multi-agent societies are often used in manufacturing systems and other large-scale distributed systems. These systems often need an efficient task redistribution strategy in case of component faults or load variations. This chapter presents a simple, algorithmic approach for such a strategy, requiring low processing and communications resources.
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Ştefan, I., Moiş, G., Enyedi, S., Miclea, L. (2012). A Load Balancing Algorithm for Multi-agent Systems. In: Borangiu, T., Thomas, A., Trentesaux, D. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27449-7_8
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