Title
Solving inaccessibility in multi-agent systems by mobile middle-agents
Abstract
This paper analyzes the problem of communication inaccessibility in the multi-agent systems. Apart from listing the main reasons for existence of communication inaccessibility, it suggest a complete inaccessibility model and metrics. Various inaccessibility solutions are presented, together with their applicability in the environments with different degrees of inaccessibility, as verified by experiments. Major contribution of this paper is in suggesting a novel solution to solving inaccessibility based on community of autonomous, migrating middle-agents. A distributed algorithm for dynamic allocation of the middle-agents in a network of partially inaccessible agents is proposed. The suggested solution is supported by a set of experiments comparing the distributed and centralized algorithm for middle-agents allocation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.3233/MGS-2005-1202
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi agent system,ad hoc network
Computer science,Multi-agent system,Distributed algorithm,Wireless ad hoc network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
2
1574-1702
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Sislák1559.52
Michal Pěchouček21134133.88
Martin Rehak325128.57
Jan Tozicka45814.00
Petr Benda5254.03