Multi-agent Collaboration in QoS Management
Krunoslav Tržec · Annual Conference on Computers · 2002
This paper focuses on the issues of collaboration among Intelligent Agents (IAs) for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Proposed multi-agent system (MAS) for QoS management is an environment composed of intelligent agents that ensure guaranteed QoS offered by multi-service communication networks according to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) among users and service providers. A hybrid layered agent architecture that exploits both goal-orientation and reactiveness is designed. It supports flexible and adaptive behavior as well as collaboration among the intelligent agents. The advantages of using market-based multi-agent collaboration in QoS management are discussed.