Building reliable systems based on self-organizing multi-agent systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 51-57

  Klein, Florian ^a   Tichy, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

agent; availability; dynamic task allocation; multi agent systems; reliability

Indexed keywords

BACK-UP SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC TASK ALLOCATION; HIGH RELIABILITY; LOCAL RECONFIGURATIONS; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; PRIMARY SYSTEMS; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; REPLICATION PROCESS; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-BASED;

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 46849102292     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138063.1138074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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