Architectural Principles and Scheduling Strategies for Computing Agent Systems

Issue title: Theory and Applications of Soft Computing (TASC04)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Grochowski, Marek | Schaefer, Robert | Smołka, Maciej

Affiliations: Computer Science Department, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland | Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. E-mail: {grochowski,smolka}@ii.uj.edu.pl; schaefer@agh.edu.pl

Abstract: The paper introduces the formal description of a computing multi-agent system (MAS), its architecture and dynamics (sections 2–4). The optimal scheduling problem for the MAS as well as a way of its verification are presented in terms of such a model (section 5). A brief report of test results published previously in [13, 3, 4, 8] is contained in section 6.

Keywords: Distributed computations, multi-agent systems, task scheduling

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 15-26, 2006