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Challenges in exception handling in multi-agent systems

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Shinichi Honiden,

Nicolas SabouretAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

Pages 45 - 50

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138072

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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Exception handling has received little interest in the agent community despite its challenges to build more reliable agent systems. In this paper, we survey existing work on exception handling for Multi-Agent Systems. We tried to identify in the present literature what research directions are required and likely to improve current techniques. In particular, we think that the agent proactivity and context in the systems are potential characteristics to exploit for agent-level exception handling.

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Index Terms

Challenges in exception handling in multi-agent systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

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ISBN:1595933956

DOI:10.1145/1138063

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University of Paderborn, Germany
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Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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