EAN: 9781447150459

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FROM FAULT...

Faults are a concern for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) designers  especially if the MAS are built
for industrial or military use because there must be some guarantee of dependability. Some
fault classification exists for classical systems  and is used to define faults. When
dependability is at stake  such fault classification may be used from the beginning of the
system's conception to define fault classes and specify which types of faults are expected.
Thus  one may want to use fault classification for MAS  however  From Fault Classification to
Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems argues that working with autonomous and proactive
agents implies a special analysis of the faults potentially occurring in the system. Moreover 
the field of Fault Tolerance (FT) provides numerous methods adapted to handle different kinds
of faults. Some handling methods have been studied within the MAS domain  adapting to their
specificities and capabilities but increasing the large amount of FT methods. Therefore  unless
being an expert in fault tolerance  it is difficult to choose  evaluate or compare fault
tolerance methods  preventing a lot of developed applications from not only to being more
pleasant to use but  more importantly  from at least being tolerant to common faults. From
Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems shows that specification phase
guidelines and fault handler studies can be derived from the fault classification extension
made for MAS. From this perspective  fault classification can become a unifying concept between
fault tolerance methods in MAS.

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