Multi-agent infrastructure, agent discovery , middle agents for Web services and interoperation
Mutli-agents systems and applications
Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation
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
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Configuration management of mobile agents based on SNMP
RSCTC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Rough sets and current trends in computing
Distributed algorithms for dynamic survivability of multiagent systems
CLIMA IV'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Deployment of distributed multi-agent systems
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
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As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging configuration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to computers, launch them on remote hosts, and once the agents have been launched, how to monitor their runtime status so as to manage computing resources effectively.In this paper, we present the RETSINA Configuration Manager, \emph{RECoMa}. We describe its architecture, how it uses agent infrastructure such as service discovery, to assist the multi-agent system administrator in allocating, launching, and monitoring a heterogeneous distributed agent system in a distributed and networked computing environment.\footnote{The authors would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of Matthew W. Easterday in his earlier and exhaustive implementations of configuration management programs and CM design proposals. This research has been sponsored in part by DARPA Grant F-30602-98-2-0138 and the Office of Naval Research Grant N-00014-96-16-1-1222.}