Paper Info
Title
Middle-Agents Organized In Fault Tolerant And Fixed Scalable Structure
Abstract
Agents in a multi-agent system usually use middle-agents to locate service providers. Since one central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck in the system, therefore a structure of middle-agents is used to overcome these issues. We designed and implemented a structure of middle-agents called dynamic hierarchical teams that has user-defined level of fault-tolerance and is moreover fixed scalable. We prove that the structure that has teams of size lambda has vertex and edge connectivity equal to lambda i.e., the structure stays connected despite lambda - 1 failures of middle-agents or lambda - 1 communication channels. We focus on social knowledge management describing several methods that can be used for social knowledge propagation and search in this structure. We also test the fault-tolerance of this structure in practical experiments.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS
multi-agent systems, fault tolerance, scalability
Field
DocType
Volume
Bottleneck,Single point of failure,Computer science,Communication channel,Service provider,Multi-agent system,Fault tolerance,Knowledge engineering,Scalability,Distributed computing
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1335-9150
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
9
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pavel Tichý111418.18