Cooperating Mobile Agents

A Consensus Algorithm for Synchronous Distributed Systems using Mobile Agent

In this paper, we present a consensus algorithm for synchronous distributed systems using cooperating mobile agents. The algorithm is designed within a framework for mobile agent enabled distributed server groups (MADSG), where cooperating mobile agents are used to achieve coordination among the servers. Being autonomous and cooperative, cooperating mobile agents exchange information among them...

Reconfiguration Testing for Cooperating Autonomous Agents

In order to verify reconfiguration of interacting autonomous agents to be exclusively beneficial and never hazardous to cyber-physical systems, this article suggests a systematic approach based on incremental model-based testing and illustrates its application to cooperating mobile robots.

A Surveillance System based on Audio and Video Sensory Agents cooperating with a Mobile Robot

We present a surveillance system that uses audio and video sensors to reveal and track the presence of an intruder in a off-limit area. The system is composed of a mobile agent and several static agents cooperating in the tracking task. The mobile agent is a vision agent composed of an omnidirectional vision system and a mobile robot. The mobile agents greatly increase the flexibility of the su...

Cooperating Mobile Agents for Dynamic Network Routing

Achieving Replication Consistency Using Cooperating Mobile Agents

One of the problems in replication is how to coordinate the updates made to the copies maintained at different replicated servers so that data consistency is ensured. This paper presents a novel approach to designing protocols for accessing replicated data in a large-scale distributed environment such as the Internet. Unlike traditional message-passing based protocols which require expensive ex...