Agent server technology for managing millions of agents

  • Authors:
  • Gaku Yamamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Japan

  • Venue:
  • MMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe technologies for an agent server capable of hosting millions of agents. The agent server needs a thread management mechanism, a memory management mechanism, and a recovery management mechanism. We have developed a framework and agent execution environment named Caribbean. First, we describe the programming model of Caribbean. Following the description, we explain technologies for managing millions of agents. Some application scenarios of real commercial systems using the technology are also introduced. We describe what we learned from the development of the real applications.