Building reliable systems based on self-organizing multi-agent systems

Authors:
Florian Klein;Matthias Tichy
Affiliations:
University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

High reliability and availability are of utmost importance to the majority of today's software-based systems. Typically, some kind of redundancy is used in order to achieve high reliability and availability in case of faults. Dynamic redundancy setups employ backup systems which take over as soon as the primary system fails. Additionally, central fault tolerance management systems are often used to guide the replication process. In this paper, we present an approach which relies on emergent fault-tolerance. The desired behavior is the result of local reconfigurations of self-organizing agents. This allows us to abandon the classical distinction of primary and backup systems as well as the need for a central management system. Our experimental results show the benefit of our approach.