Intelligent agents and BIST/BISR - working together in distributed systems

Author

Miclea, Liviu ; Szilárd, Enyedi ; Benso, Alfredo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

940

Lastpage

946

Abstract

This paper presents an attempt of using intelligent agents for testing and repairing a distributed system, whose elements may or may not have embedded BIST (built-in self-test) and BISR (built-in self-repair) facilities. The agents are software modules that perform monitoring, diagnosis and repair of the faults. Together they form a society whose members communicate, set goals and solve tasks. To demonstrate the idea we used the Zeus agent development environment. Two examples of distributed systems are presented in order to illustrate the cooperative model for fault diagnosis and repair.

Keywords

automatic testing; built-in self test; condition monitoring; distributed processing; fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; multi-agent systems; software agents; BISR; BIST; Zeus agent development environment; built-in self-repair; built-in self-test; cooperative fault diagnosis/repair model; distributed system repair; distributed system testing; fault diagnosis; fault monitoring; fault repair; intelligent agents; software modules; Automatic testing; Automation; Built-in self-test; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Computerized monitoring; Fault diagnosis; Intelligent agent; Software standards; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Conference, 2002. Proceedings. International

ISSN

1089-3539

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7542-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEST.2002.1041849

Filename

1041849