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Structural Adaptations for Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems

Authors:
Thomas Preisler
Wolfgang Renz

Keywords: Self-Organizing Systems; Multi-Agent Systems; Structural Adaptation; Decentralized Coordination

Abstract:
Over one decade of research in engineering of self-organization (SO) has established SO as the decentralized way to build self-adaptive systems. However, such SO systems even when well engineered may, under certain conditions, exhibit unwanted dynamical behavior, e.g. performance may decrease and/or starvation may occur. A promising concept to overcome such dynamical in-efficiencies in SO systems is to realize the dynamic exchange or reconfiguration of the coordination processes responsible for the self-organizing behavior in terms of a structural adaptation. In this paper, we propose an architecture and engineering approach to support the self-adaptive, structural exchange (or reconfiguration) of self-organizing coordination processes based on distributed Multi-Agent technology. Here, a sensor in each agent detects any decrease of specified SO performance indicators which initiates a distributed consensus process that allows for the exchange (or reconfiguration) of the self-organizing coordination processes, enabling the system to adapt to changing conditions automatically.

Pages: 1 to 8

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: March 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4146

ISBN: 978-1-61208-391-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 22, 2015 to March 27, 2015