Enhancing Robustness of Information Systems through Distributed Adaptive Coordination

该研究项目是IIS-9812755的合作项目，其目标是创建和传播一种软件基础设施，用于构建既分布式又健壮的复杂大型信息系统。这种系统的路径在于将分布式信息系统视为多代理系统：由潜在的数百个智能实时代理组成的计算组织。健壮的信息系统将调整其功能和性能，以响应系统目标的变化、性能要求的变化以及可用软件和硬件资源的变化。适合这种系统的多代理体系结构正在开发中，它包含了局部代理调度、多代理协调、组织设计、面对环境变化时不适当行为的检测和诊断以及在线学习以提高其他组件性能的组件技术。为了评估这项研究，一个多智能体模拟试验台被用来对单个技术、集成系统原型和大型智能体社会的可扩展性问题进行广泛的评估。这项工作的影响是提供软件、技术和实证研究，这将有助于构建下一代强大的信息系统。http://dis.cs.umass.edu/

The goal of this research project, a collaborative award with IIS-9812755, is to create and disseminate a software infrastructure for building complex and large-scale information systems that are both distributed and robust. The path to such systems lies in viewing distributed information systems as multi-agent systems: computational organizations consisting of potentially hundreds of intelligent real-time agents. Robust information systems will adapt both their functions and performance in response to changes in system goals, changes in performance requirements, and changes in the available software and hardware resources. A multi-agent architecture appropriate for such systems is being developed that contains component technologies for local agent scheduling, multi-agent coordination, organizational design, detection and diagnosis of inappropriate behavior in face of environmental change, and on-line learning to improve the performance of the other components. To evaluate this research, a multi-agent simulation testbed is being utilized to conduct extensive evaluation of the individual technologies, an integrated system prototype, and the issues of scalability to large agent societies. The impact of this work is to provide software, techniques and empirical studies that will facilitate the construction of the next generation of robust information systems.http://dis.cs.umass.edu/