Title
A Multi-Agent Approach for the Deployment of Distributed Applications in Smart Environments.
Abstract
This paper presents an approach for the configuration, deployment and monitoring of distributed applications in a smart environment. This approach takes into consideration the heterogeneity and the dynamicity of such environments and deals with resource privacy. We propose to describe the available hardware infrastructure and the deployable applications using graphs, and provide a mathematical formalisation of the deployment process based on graph homomorphisms. A decentralised version of a branch and hound graph-matching algorithm is used to find the available hardware entities of the infrastructure that can be used to run the application, respecting its requirements. At last, we describe a goal-directed Multi-Agent System (MAS) for the deployment of applications in ambient systems. We show that the multi-agent paradigm is well-adapted to provide a clear separation between the applicative and the hardware layers, thus increasing resource privacy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-48829-5_4
Studies in Computational Intelligence
Field
DocType
Volume
Smart environment,Branch and bound,Software deployment,Computer science,Graph homomorphism,Ambient intelligence,Homomorphism,Multi agent approach,User agent,Distributed computing
Conference
678
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1860-949X
1
0.39
References 
Authors
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ferdinand Piette110.73
Costin Caval210.73
Cédric Dinont372.65
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni444353.60
Patrick Taillibert57715.76