The UMASS intelligent home project
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
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The growth of a distributed processing system can increase both the number and likelihood of attacks it may be subject to over its lifetime. This fact, in addition to the complexity inherent in such an environment, makes the survivability of large heterogeneous systems one of the most challenging research areas currently being investigated. Our goal is to create a distributed simulation system to test various coordination mechanisms allowing the elements of the system to detect, react and adapt in the face of adverse working conditions. Our assumption is that the system is composed of a group of autonomous agents. Each agent has its own local view of the world and its own goals, but is capable of coordinating these goals with respect to remote agents. To simulate these complex systems, an environment is needed which permits the simulation of an agent''s method execution. To this end, we are developing a distributed event-based simulator capable of simulating the effects directed attacks or a capricious environment have on agent method execution and recovery.