Leveraging agent properties to assure survivability of distributed multi-agent systems

14 July 2003

conference paper
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

p. 946-947
https://doi.org/10.1145/860575.860738

Abstract

The nature of distributed multi-agent systems makes assuring their survivability under stress particularly challenging. However, the nature of distributed agent-based systems also brings the potential to address these particular challenges, and, indeed, to assure survivability to a degree beyond that possible in non-agent-based architectures. This extended abstract synopsizes a paper detailing approaches that are rooted in the essential properties of agent software architectures to assure the survivability of distributed agent-based systems. Specifically, the paper describes efforts under the DARPA UltraLog program to formulate a survivability argument based on properties of agent architectures. This extended abstract truncates many details from the original; interested readers are encouraged to contact the authors for the complete paper.

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