Self-synchronization of cooperative agents in a distributed environment

Authors:
Sergio Ilarri;Eduardo Mena;Arantza Illarramendi
Affiliations:
IIS Department, Univ. of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;IIS Department, Univ. of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;LSI Department, Univ. of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
Venue:
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Multiagent systems have been widely used in applications that are inherently distributed such as information retrieval, network diagnosis, and distributed vehicle monitoring. The use of multiple cooperative agents offers some important advantages(such as parallelism, robustness and scalability) for those applications. However, the synchronization of those multiple agents is an important challenge, specially when they are executing on different computers. In this paper we present a formal description of a mechanism based on deadline commitmentst o synchronize agentsin a distributed application. In our proposal, agents synchronize themselves reacting to changes in the environment. The proposal considers a loose coupling among agents with the goal of maintaining the autonomy and independency of the involved agents.