Law-governed interaction: a coordination and control mechanism for heterogeneous distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Improving fault-tolerance by replicating agents
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Cloning for Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Revised Papers from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems: Methodologies and Applications
A Sentinel Approach to Fault Handling in Multi-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems: Methodologies and Applications
Using dynamic proxy agent replicate groups to improve fault-tolerance in multi-agent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Using Event-Streams for Fault-Management in MAS
IAT '04 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
On fault tolerance in law-governed multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Dynamic and adaptive replication for large-scale reliable multi-agent systems
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Towards fault-tolerant massively multiagent systems
MMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
A taxonomy of software architecture-based reliability efforts
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
A simulation approach to design contracts that govern emergent multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
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The dependability of open multi-agent systems is a particular concern, notably because of their main characteristics as decentralization and no single point of control. This paper describes an approach to increase the availability of such systems through a technique of fault tolerance known as agent replication, and to increase their reliability through a mechanism of agent interaction regulation called law enforcement mechanism. Therefore, we combine two frameworks: one for law enforcement, named XMLaw, and another for agent adaptive replication, named DimaX, in which the decision of replicating an agent is based on a dynamic estimation of its criticality. Moreover, we will describe how we can reuse some of the information expressed by laws in order to help at the estimation of agent criticality, thus providing a better integration of the two frameworks. At the end of the paper, we recommend a means to specify criticality monitoring variation through a structured argumentation approach that documents the rationale around the decisions of the law elements derivation.