Title :
Scalability Analysis of the Contract Net Protocol
Author :
Juhasz, Zoltan ; Paul, Prasenjit
Abstract :
Multi-agent systems have been proposed for creating large grid computing systems. This paper investigates the performance and scalability of the Contract Net protocol. We have developed a testbed multi-agent system and measured the task execution times under different agent load. The paper shows how the system response time depends on the number of agents and the deadline value.
Keywords :
Contracts; Delay; Electrical capacitance tomography; Information systems; Multiagent systems; Proposals; Protocols; Scalability; System testing; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2002. 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1582-7
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2002.1017157
