Enhancing Robustness of Information Systems through Distributed Adaptive Coordination

通过分布式自适应协调增强信息系统的鲁棒性

• 批准号: 9812764
• 负责人: Keith Decker
• 金额: $ 19.34万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9812764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Robustness; Information; Systems; through

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/

该研究项目是与国际信息系统国际信息系统-9812755合作的一个奖项，其目标是创建和传播一个软件基础设施，用于建立既分散又健壮的复杂和大规模信息系统。通向这类系统的途径在于将分布式信息系统视为多智能体系统：潜在地由数百个智能实时智能体组成的计算组织。强大的信息系统将根据系统目标的变化、性能要求的变化以及现有软件和硬件资源的变化来调整其功能和性能。一种适用于这种系统的多智能体体系结构正在开发中，其中包含用于本地智能体调度、多智能体协调、组织设计、面对环境变化的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，多代理模拟试验台被用来对单独的技术、集成的系统原型以及对大型代理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，促进构建下一代强大的信息系统。http://dis.cs.umass.edu/