Authors:
Karl-Heinz Krempels
and
Christoph Terwelp
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Agent societies, Orchestration, Rule-based system.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Platforms and Interoperability
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Cooperation and Coordination
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Soft Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Composing heterogeneous agent-based applications is mostly a complex task due to specific requirements of agents and existing dependencies among agents and societies. Resolving such dependency-networks is subject of agent and agent-society deployment and monitoring. The orchestration task covers automatic deployment, configuration, monitoring and reconfiguration of agent-based applications.
Existing approaches provide static mapping of dependencies and constraints of agent and agent-society descriptions. This leads to a high modification effort, which requires very specialised developer’s know-how and can be very complex as well as error-prone, not only when distributing agents over several hosts, but also when launching agents locally.
In this paper a reference model of a deployment infrastructure, a description model for agents and agent-societies and a knowledge-based mechanism for the orchestration of agent and agent-societies are presented with the aim to overcome the disadvanta
ges of the considered existing approaches.
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