An experimental evaluation of domain-independent fault handling services open multi-agent systems
Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, Mark Klein · 2003
A critical challenge to creating effective open multi-agent systems is allowing them to operate effectively in the face of potential failures. In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of a set of domain-independent services designed to handle the failure modes ("exceptions") that can occur in such environments, applied to the well-known "Contract Net" multi-agent system coordination protocol. We show that these services can produce substantially more effective fault-handling behavior than standard existing techniques, while allowing simpler agent implementations.