Using self-diagnosis to adapt organizational structures
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Organizational self-design in semi-dynamic environments
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Analysis and design of a web-agent-based distributed learning environment
AIC'04 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications
Itinerary determination of imprecise mobile agents with firm deadline
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Constructing the multi-agents communication model to implement dynamic intelligent system
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-design
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Analyzing the tradeoffs between breakup and cloning in the context of organizational self-design
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Replication Based on Role Concept for Multi-Agent Systems
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Towards a framework for agent coordination and reorganization, AgentCoRe
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Analyzing different levels of geographic context awareness in agent ferrying over VANETs
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Implementing a multi-agent organization that changes its fault tolerance policy at run-time
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Cloning mechanisms to improve agent performances
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Multi-agent systems are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing tasks to others or agent migration to remote hosts. We propose agent cloning as a more comprehensive approach to the problem of local agent overloads. Agent cloning subsumes task transfer and agent mobility. According to our paradigm, agents may clone, pass tasks to others, die, or merge. We discuss the requirements of implementing a cloning mechanism and its benefits in a multi-agent system, and support our claims with simulation results