RULE-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AGENT-SOCIETIES

Karl-Heinz Krempels, Christoph Terwelp

2011

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 disadvantages of the considered existing approaches.

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Krempels K. and Terwelp C. (2011). RULE-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AGENT-SOCIETIES . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-41-6, pages 367-371. DOI: 10.5220/0003113103670371


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Karl-Heinz Krempels and Christoph Terwelp},
title={RULE-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AGENT-SOCIETIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={367-371},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003113103670371},
isbn={978-989-8425-41-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - RULE-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AGENT-SOCIETIES
SN - 978-989-8425-41-6
AU - Krempels K.
AU - Terwelp C.
PY - 2011
SP - 367
EP - 371
DO - 10.5220/0003113103670371