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Fault Tolerance in Multiagent Systems

Authors : Samuel H. Christie V, Amit K. Chopra

Published in: Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A decentralized multiagent systems (MAS) is comprised of autonomous agents who interact with each other via asynchronous messaging. A protocol specifies a MAS by specifying the constraints on messaging between agents. Agents enact protocols by applying their own internal decision making.

Various kinds of faults may occur when enacting a protocol. For example, messages may be lost, duplicates may be delivered, and agents may crash during the processing of a message. Our contribution in this paper is demonstrating how information protocols support rich fault tolerance mechanisms, and in a manner that is unanticipated by alternative approaches for engineering decentralized MAS.

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Title: Fault Tolerance in Multiagent Systems
Authors: Samuel H. Christie V
Amit K. Chopra
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-66533-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-66534-0

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66534-0_5

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