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Reliable Document-centric Processing in a Loosely Coupled Email-based System

Authors:
Magdalena Godlewska

Keywords: multi-agent systems; collaborative work; electronic documents; email-based systems

Abstract:
Email is a simple way to exchange digital documents of any kind. The Mobile INteractive Document architecture (MIND) enables self-coordination and self-steering of document agent systems based on commonly available email services. In this paper, a mechanism for providing integrity and reliability of such an email based agent system is proposed to cope with message soft or hard bounces, user interrupts, and other unexpected events. This mechanism consists of a system acting as a ”ground control” for migrating documents and a set of protocols that improve the implementation of document coordination patterns. It allows for an estimation of the global state of a distributed loosely coupled agent system and making top-down decisions in unforeseen situations.

Pages: 38 to 45

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-381-0

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

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