Increasing Resource Utilization and Task Performance by Agent Cloning - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Increasing Resource Utilization and Task Performance by Agent Cloning

Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Prasad Chalasani, and Somesh Jha
Workshop Paper, 5th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL '98), pp. 413 - 426, July, 1998

Abstract

Agents in a multi-agent system may face situations where tasks overload their computational capacities. Usually, this problem is solved by passing tasks to others or agent migration to remote hosts. We propose agent cloning as a more comprehensive approach to balancing local agent overloads. According to our paradigm, agents may clone, pass tasks to others, die or merge. We discuss the requirements of implementing a cloning mechanism and its benefits in a Multi-Agent System (MAS), and support our claims with simulation results.

BibTeX

@workshop{Shehory-1998-16565,
author = {Onn Shehory and Katia Sycara and Prasad Chalasani and Somesh Jha},
title = {Increasing Resource Utilization and Task Performance by Agent Cloning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL '98)},
year = {1998},
month = {July},
pages = {413 - 426},
}