Ilya Lopatkin
ABSTRACT
Mobile agent systems typically consist of many elements that dynamically change behaviour and have to face various faults and errors due to system openness and agent autonomy. Individual agents have to cope with those threats in order to ensure the resilience of the systems. This paper introduces a new component search approach to be applied in agent systems and proposes a design and implementation of a searching mechanism developed as an extension of the existing CAMA middleware. The approach allows dynamic system reconfiguration aiming at dealing with unpredictable changes in system behaviour and is in particular useful for tolerating various system faults. The approach is demonstrated through a sample application.
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Index Terms
- Resilience through dynamic reconfiguration in agent systems
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