Towards self-organising agent-based resource allocation in a multi-server environment

  • Authors:
  • Tino Schlegel;Ryszard Kowalczyk

  • Affiliations:
  • Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia;Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Distributed applications require distributed techniques for efficient resource allocation. These techniques need to take into account the heterogeneity and potential unreliability of resources and resource consumers in a distributed environments. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm that solves the resource allocation problem in distributed multi-agent systems. Our solution is based on the self-organisation of agents, which does not require any facilitator or management layer. The resource allocation in the system is a purely emergent effect. We present results of the proposed resource allocation mechanism in the simulated static and dynamic multi-server environment.