Developing self-organizing systems by policy-based self-organizing multi-agent systems

Authors:
Yi Guo;Xinjun Mao;Cuiyun Hu;Junwen Yin;Xinzhong Zhu
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;College of Mathematics, Physics and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jin Hua, China
Venue:
AMT'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Active Media Technology
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Designing suitable interaction behaviors among agent to satisfy the system level requirements is a key issue when designers develop self-organizing systems. Such system is typically designed in an iterative way. However, this method is insufficient once the system requirements become unpredicted at the design-time. In this paper, we propose a policy-based approach to deal with this issue. In our approach, policy is the high-level abstraction to specify self-organizing mechanism as well as the mediator to adjust the local interaction behavior of agents, which enables developer to encapsulate self-organizing implementation mechanism and adapt to the changes of self-organizing requirements. We also study the corresponding implementation approach based on agent technology, including policy management and implementation, the corresponding agent architecture. Based on these implementation technologies, a running environment is provided to support the development of such system. Finally, a case is studied by the running environment to illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.