Paper Info
Title
The challenge of real-time multi-agent systems for enabling IoT and CPS
Abstract
Techniques originating from the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) areas have extensively been applied to develop intelligent and pervasive systems such as assistive monitoring, feedback in telerehabilitation, energy management, and negotiation. Those application domains particularly include three major characteristics: intelligence, autonomy and real-time behavior. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are one of the major technological paradigms that are used to implement such systems. However, they mainly address the first two characteristics, but miss to comply with strict timing constraints. The timing compliance is crucial for safety-critical applications operating in domains such as healthcare and automotive. The main reasons for this lack of real-time satisfiability in MAS originate from current theories, standards, and technological implementations. In particular, internal agent schedulers, communication middlewares, and negotiation protocols have been identified as co-factors inhibiting the real-time compliance. This paper provides an analysis of such MAS components and pave the road for achieving the MAS compliance with strict timing constraints, thus fostering reliability and predictability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3106426.3106518
WI
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
multi-agent systems, IoT, CPS, real-time systems, real-time multiagent systems, MAS negotiation timing compliant
Conference
978-1-4503-4951-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.56
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davide Calvaresi18820.67
Mauro Marinoni226025.92
Arnon Sturm341044.76
Michael Schumacher482.44
Giorgio C. Buttazzo53633238.00