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DimaX: a fault-tolerant multi-agent platform

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Zahia Guessoum,

Olivier MarinAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

Pages 13 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138067

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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Fault tolerance is an important property of large-scale multi-agent systems as the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts and deployed agents, and the duration of computation. Several approaches have been introduced to deal with some aspects of the fault-tolerance problem. However, most existing solutions are ad hoc. Thus, no existing multi-agent architecture or platform provides a fault-tolerance service that can be used to facilitate the design and implementation of reliable multi-agent systems. So, we have developed a fault-tolerant multi-agent platform (named DimaX). DimaX deals with fail-stop failures like bugs and/or breakdown machines. It brings fault-tolerance for multi-agent applications by using replication techniques. It is based on a replication framework (named DARX).

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DimaX: a fault-tolerant multi-agent platform
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software

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SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

May 2006

117 pages

ISBN:1595933956

DOI:10.1145/1138063

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Ricardo Choren
Military Institute of Engineering, Brazi)
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Alessandro Garcia
Lancaster University, UK
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Holger Giese
University of Paderborn, Germany
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Ho-fung Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Carlos Lucena
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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