Modelling Fault-Tolerant Systems using BDI Agents
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Felipe Rech Meneguzzi · 2003
A number of mechanisms for providing fault tolerance in distributed systems have been proposed for the traditional paradigms of system development. As Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP) becomes a more attractive model for distributed system construction, new possibilities of designing more flexible dependable systems are foreseen. Therefore, fault-tolerant mechanisms should be defined so that dependable multi-agent systems might be developed. In this paper we describe a way of implementing a fault-tolerant multi-agent system, which is inspired in some of the mechanisms proposed for distributed systems.