Communications of the ACM
A New Family of Cayley Graph Interconnection Networks of Constant Degree Four
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Industrial MAS for Planning and Control
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
Software Engineering for Scalable Distributed Applications
COMPSAC '98 Proceedings of the 22nd International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Heartbeat: A Timeout-Free Failure Detector for Quiescent Reliable Communication
WDAG '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms
Social Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems
EASSS '01 Selected Tutorial Papers from the 9th ECCAI Advanced Course ACAI 2001 and Agent Link's 3rd European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
IJCAI '95 Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaption and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
Certificate revocation and certificate update
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
Probabilistically survivable MASs
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Industrial deployment of multi-agent technologies: review and selected case studies
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck in the system. Thus a structure of middle-agents can be used to overcome these issues. We designed and implemented a structure of middle-agents called dynamic hierarchical teams that has user-defined level of fault-tolerance and is moreover fixed scalable. We prove that the structure that has teams of size λ has edge and vertex connectivity equal to λ and is maximally fault tolerant. We focus on social knowledge management describing several methods that can be used for social knowledge propagation and related methods to search for knowledge in this structure. We also test the fault-tolerance of this structure in practical experiments.