Communications of the ACM
Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Dynamic voting for consistent primary components
PODC '97 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
An agent-based framework for interoperability
Software agents
Distributed Intelligent Agents
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
A Fault-Tolerant Scheme of Multi-agent System for Worker Agents
AMT '01 Proceedings of the 6th International Computer Science Conference on Active Media Technology
Distributed Storage of Replicated Beliefs to Facilitate Recovery of Distributed Intelligent Agents
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Communication-Induced Checkpointing Protocol that Ensures Rollback-Dependency Trackability
FTCS '97 Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '97)
The Adaptive Agent Architecture: Achieving Fault-Tolerance Using Persistent Broker Teams
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
A Taxonomy of Middle-Agents for the Internet
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
NAP: Practical Fault-Tolerance for Itinerant Computations
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanisms
Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanisms
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The paper introduces a hybrid fault-tolerant scheme of MAS. The scheme is composed of facilitator based recovery scheme and coordination based recovery scheme. To discuss the fault-tolerance of working agents in MAS, we propose a novel approach to fault-tolerance of agent's execution in MAS based on multiple facilitators architecture. In coordination based recovery scheme, the facilitators maintain a task plan in a stable storage to preserve consistency by using checkpoints. In addition, facilitator based recovery scheme is appropriate for supporting autonomous as well as fault-tolerant characteristics of MAS.