Towards Preventive Control for Open MAS - An Aspect-based Approach

Mohamed Sedik Chebout, Farid Mokhati, Mourad Badri, Mohamed Chaouki Babahenini

2016

Abstract

In Open MAS (Open Multi Agent Systems), agents can freely join and leave systems at any time. The inherent specificities of such systems like dynamicity, non-determinism and emergency make their target states difficult to achieve. Agents, in Open MAS, are often heterogeneous, self-interested with conflicting individual goals and limited trust. Consequently, newly entered (external) agents are often considered as a potential disturbance of systems. In this paper, we present a novel preventive control approach based on Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) paradigm for mastering Open MAS’ behaviour. The proposed control process is mainly accomplished in two steps: (1) Observing agents movements by intercepting all external requests of agents wanting accessing to the system. A request analysis process will be held in terms of compliance capabilities presented by this agent, and (2) Deciding, based on AspectJ constructors, either to allow agents if the capabilities they have enable a possible progress in actual system state to the target state, or prevent it otherwise. The proposed approach is illustrated using a MaDKit-based application.

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Chebout M., Mokhati F., Badri M. and Chaouki Babahenini M. (2016). Towards Preventive Control for Open MAS - An Aspect-based Approach . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-198-4, pages 269-274. DOI: 10.5220/0006005602690274


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@conference{icinco16,
author={Mohamed Sedik Chebout and Farid Mokhati and Mourad Badri and Mohamed Chaouki Babahenini},
title={Towards Preventive Control for Open MAS - An Aspect-based Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2016},
pages={269-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006005602690274},
isbn={978-989-758-198-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Towards Preventive Control for Open MAS - An Aspect-based Approach
SN - 978-989-758-198-4
AU - Chebout M.
AU - Mokhati F.
AU - Badri M.
AU - Chaouki Babahenini M.
PY - 2016
SP - 269
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0006005602690274