On using the CAMA framework for developing open mobile fault tolerant agent systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Execution coordination in mobile agent-based distributed job workflow execution
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
Specification of an exception handling system for a replicated agent environment
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Exception handling
Formal development of cooperative exception handling for mobile agent systems
Proceedings of the 2008 RISE/EFTS Joint International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
Resilience through dynamic reconfiguration in agent systems
Proceedings of the 2008 RISE/EFTS Joint International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
Context-oriented exception handling
International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
Supporting cross-language exception handling when extending applications with embedded languages
SERENE'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Software engineering for resilient systems
Exception handling and asynchronous active objects: issues and proposal
Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques
Ambient-Oriented exception handling
Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques
Structured coordination spaces for fault tolerant mobile agents
Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques
On specification and verification of location-based fault tolerant mobile systems
Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems
Rigorous development of fault-tolerant agent systems
Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems
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Mobile agent systems have many attractive features including asynchrony, openness, dynamicity and anonymity, which makes them indispensable in designing complex modern applications that involve moving devices, human participants and software. To be comprehensive this list should include fault tolerance, yet as our analysis shows, this property is, unfortunately, often overlooked by middleware designers. A few existing solutions for fault tolerant mobile agents are developed mainly for tolerating hardware faults without providing any general support for application-specific recovery. In this paper we describe a novel exception handling model that allows application-specific recovery in coordination-based systems consisting of mobile agents. The proposed mechanism is general enough to be used in both loosely-and tightly-coupled communication models. The general ideas behind the mechanism are applied in the context of the Lime middleware.