Fault Tolerance in Scalable Agent Support Systems: Integrating DARX in the AgentScape Framework

Open multi-agent systems need to cope with the characteristics of the Internet, e.g., dynamic availability of computational resources, latency, and diversity of services. Large-scale multi-agent systems employed on wide-area distributed systems are susceptible to both hardware and software failures. This paper describes AgentScape, a multi-agent system support environment, DARX, a framework for providing fault tolerance in large scale agent systems, and a design for the integration of the two.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier, Olivier Marin
• Keywords: CCGRID 2003, Cluster Computing, Large-scale Multi-agent Systems, Multi-agent System, Open Multi-agent Systems