Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Computing the fault tolerance of multi-agent deployment
Artificial Intelligence
Probabilistically survivable MASs
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Distributed algorithms for dynamic survivability of multiagent systems
CLIMA IV'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
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Embedded with cloning mechanisms, an agent can balance its own loads by discharging computing tasks to its clones when it is over-loaded. In addition, it''s more reasonable to transfer the smarter, smaller clones of an agent rather than the bulky agent itself in mobile computing. In this paper, a simple BDI agent model is formally established. Using this model, the semantics of agent generation by inheritance and self-identification are precisely defined. Four kinds of cloning mechanisms are identified, the properties of each cloning mechanism and the relationships in between are studied, and some implementation issues are also discussed.