Supporting Life Cycle Coordination in Open Agent Systems
Frances M.T. Brazier, David G. A. Mobach, Benno J. Overeinder, N.J.E. Wijngaards · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 2002
Coordination mechanisms need the proper support if they are to function within large-scale, heterogeneous multi-agent systems.This paper presents a life cycle model for mobile agents in which a number of different states and transitions are defined.An agent's state can be used to provide coordination mechanisms with useful status information, enabling these mechanisms to deal with realistic situations, in which agents are not always directly available, and the agent population possibly consists of many different types of agents.