Introduction to operations research, 4th ed.
Introduction to operations research, 4th ed.
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
Chameleon: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault Tolerance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Improving fault-tolerance by replicating agents
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Advances in exception handling techniques
Advances in exception handling techniques
Lessons from Designing and Implementing GARF
OBPDC '95 Selected papers from the Workshop, on Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation
A Sentinel Approach to Fault Handling in Multi-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems: Methodologies and Applications
AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture that Provides Dependable Distributed Objects
SRDS '98 Proceedings of the The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Probabilistically survivable MASs
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Dynamic and adaptive replication for large-scale reliable multi-agent systems
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Predictive fault tolerance in multiagent systems: a plan-based replication approach
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Dynamic resource allocation heuristics for providing fault tolerance in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Towards reliable multi-agent systems: An adaptive replication mechanism
Multiagent and Grid Systems
A taxonomy of software architecture-based reliability efforts
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
A proposed architecture for a fault tolerant multi agents system using extern agents
KES-AMSTA'12 Proceedings of the 6th KES international conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: technologies and applications
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The growing importance of multi-agent applications and the need for a higher quality of service in these systems justify the increasing interest in fault-tolerant multi-agent systems. In this article, we propose an original method for providing dependability in multi-agent systems through replication. Our method is different from other works because our research focuses on building an automatic, adaptive and predictive replication policy where critical agents are replicated to avoid failures. This policy is determined by taking into account the criticality of the plans of the agents, which contain the collective and individual behaviors of the agents in the application. The set of replication strategies applied at a given moment to an agent is then fine-tuned gradually by the replication system so as to reflect the dynamicity of the multi-agent system. We report on experiments assessing the efficiency of our approach.