Distributed diagnosis by vivid agents
Michael D. Schroeder, Gerd Wagner · 1997
Many systems � such as large manufacturing systems� telecommunication networks � or home automation sys� tems � require distributed monitoring and diagnosis. In this article � we introduce a meta�logic interpreter for vivid agents which allows to develop distributed mon� itoring and diagnosis systems consisting of a variety of scalable knowledge � and perception�based agents. The interpreter is based on PVM�Prolog � an exten� sion of standard Prolog with message passing facili� ties. We show how to specify and run vivid diagnosis agents carrying out fault�tolerant diagnosis of a com� puter network.