Collaborative best-effort real-time agents-a new paradigm

摘要: This paper introduces a novel new class of network-based software agents, called CoBERT because they are designed to cooperate in the best-effort maximization global system objectives for dynamic set agents with evolving characteristics, while reliably accommodating real-time requirements, as well. Cooperation is achieved by supporting mobility within subnet processing nodes, morphability between sets available workpoints, decision epochs shifting other nodes and/or appropriate state-dependent functions expressing options and implications, an protocol sharing this information meta-control charged continuously monitoring network making decisions. The timely scheduling hard soft activities accomplished even though there no priori knowledge where agent will run which additional agents. Such capabilities essential future agent-based systems, grows pervasive populate our networks. A distributed integrated HIL simulator used introduce domain demonstrate how paradigm might be applied.