Unreliable failure detectors for asynchronous systems (preliminary version)
PODC '91 Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Distributed artificial intelligence: theory and praxis
Distributed artificial intelligence: theory and praxis
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Horus: a flexible group communication system
Communications of the ACM
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
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
From Active Objects to Autonomous Agents
IEEE Concurrency
Lessons from Designing and Implementing GARF
OBPDC '95 Selected papers from the Workshop, on Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation
An Approach for Providing Mobile Agent Fault Tolerance
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Cloning for Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Revised Papers from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems: Methodologies and Applications
Fault-Tolerant Execution of Mobile Agents
DSN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly FTCS-30 and DCCA-8)
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
Monitoring and Organizational-Level Adaptation of Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Experience and prospects for various control strategies for self-replicating multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Self-adaptation and self-managing systems
A Predictive Method for Providing Fault Tolerance in Multi-agent Systems
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Dynamic resource allocation heuristics for providing fault tolerance in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Plan-based replication for fault-tolerant multi-agent systems
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Hierarchical Social Network Analysis Using a Multi-Agent System: A School System Case
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
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In order to make large-scale multi-agent systems reliable, we propose an adaptive application of replication strategies. Critical agents are replicated to avoid failures. As criticality of agents may evolve during the course of computation and problem solving, we need to dynamically and automatically adapt the number of replicas of agents, in order to maximize their reliability and availability based on available resources. We are studying an approach and mechanisms for evaluating the criticality of a given agent (based on application-level semantic information, e.g. messages intention, and also system-level statistical information, e.g., communication load) and for deciding what strategy to apply (e.g., active or passive replication) and how to parameterize it (e.g., number of replicas).