Title
A Step Towards Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract
Robustness, through fault tolerance, is a property often put forward in order to advocate MAS. The question is: What is the first step to be fault tolerant? Obviously the answer is: to know faults. The claim of this paper is that existing fault classification suitable for distributed systems does not fit completely MAS needs among other things because of autonomy, the main characteristic of their components. Actually autonomy is the very distinctive concept of agents and has unquestionable worthwhile properties. But do these properties have no compensation?After these observations on the need for fault classification the question would be about its usages for fault tolerance.To answer these questions the paper will, after a short presentation of the fault classification which prevails in fault tolerance community, show that autonomy induces a need for significant extension to this classification. It will then make a special review of this extension and present some expectations with regard to the programing of fault tolerant MAS and the behavior of two general fault handlers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-85058-8_10
LADS
Keywords
Field
DocType
fault tolerance,fault tolerant mas,significant extension,mas need,multi-agent systems,general fault handler,main characteristic,fault classification,fault tolerant,distinctive concept,fault tolerance community,multi agent system,distributed system,autonomy
Autonomy,Software fault tolerance,Multi-agent system,Robustness (computer science),Fault tolerance,Engineering,Reliability engineering,Fault model
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5118
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katia Potiron131.82
Patrick Taillibert27715.76
Amal Fallah Seghrouchni3393.99