NDLI: Using QoS-adaptive coordination artifacts to increase scalability of communication in distributed multi-agent systems

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Author	Zinky, J. Siracuse, S. Shapiro, R.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: BBN Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA (Zinky, J.; Siracuse, S.; Shapiro, R.)
Abstract	Coordination artifacts in multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a coherent abstraction of communication among agents. Coordination artifacts are first-class entities that encapsulate the coordination activity outside of the agents themselves. The separation of domain knowledge into agents, and communications knowledge into coordination artifacts, allows the decoupling of processing from coordination. Pulling out coordination allows for adaptation to systemic constraints and changing quality of service (QoS) requirements. Tailoring the QoS-adaptation to the kind of coordination and to the availability of underlying communication resources increases the scale of inter-agent communication, both in terms of the range of communication bandwidths supported and the propagation delays. In this paper, we extend the notion of coordination artifacts to include adaptation to QoS requirements. We illustrate how to construct QoS-adaptive coordination artifacts in an existing MAS infrastructure (Cougaar). Finally we show how coordination artifacts can be used to increase scalability in an agent-based distributed control application.
Sponsorship	IEEE Boston Sect
Starting Page	97
Ending Page	102
File Size	1711014
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078039013X
DOI	10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427060
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-04-18
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Availability Multiagent systems Scalability USA Councils Communication system control Quality of service Bandwidth Control systems Intelligent agent Context modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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