Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
Chameleon: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault Tolerance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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
Distributed Shared Agent Representations
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
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
AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture that Provides Dependable Distributed Objects
SRDS '98 Proceedings of the The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
The Adaptive Agent Architecture: Achieving Fault-Tolerance Using Persistent Broker Teams
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Probabilistically survivable MASs
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
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
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 taxonomy of software architecture-based reliability efforts
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
An MPI-based implementation of intelligent agents on clusters
SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
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The growing importance of multi-agent applications and the need for a higher quality of service in these systems justify the increasing interest in fault-tolerant multi-agent systems. In this article, we propose an original method for providing dependability in multiagent systems through replication. Our method is different from other works because our research focuses on building an automatic, adaptive and predictive replication policy where critical agents are replicated to avoid failures. This policy is determined by taking into account the criticality of the plans of the agents, which contain the collective and individual behaviors of the agents in the application. The set of replication strategies applied at a given moment to an agent is then fine-tuned gradually by the replication system so as to reflect the dynamicity of the multi-agent system.