Multi-agent computing system in a heterogeneous network

Author

Uhruski, P. ; Grochowski, M. ; Schaefer, R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Jagellonian Univ., Krakow, Poland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

238

Abstract

The paper presents the software platform that supports the activity of computational agents in a broad heterogeneous distributed computer environment. It is a set of software servers that support: agent´s serialization and externalization; agent´s sensors that examine the neighbouring machine resources; a migration mechanism enabling every agent to take an independent migration decision based on the current execution context; resource protection mechanisms including forcing agent migration and agent hibernation to disk. The platform prototype is deployed on Java Virtual Machine. The communication is realized by the CORBA framework. Sample work results and tests for the SBS parallel linear solver are provided and compared with the solver low-level, PVM version.

Keywords

Java; distributed algorithms; distributed object management; multi-agent systems; object-oriented programming; scheduling; software architecture; CORBA; Java Virtual Machine; SBS parallel linear solver; agent externalization; agent sensors; agent serialization; computational agents; distributed algorithms; heterogeneous distributed computer environment; heterogeneous network; migration mechanism; multi-agent computing system; resource protection mechanisms; scheduling; software servers; Computer networks; Context; Distributed computing; Java; Network servers; Protection; Software prototyping; Testing; Virtual machining; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2002. PARELEC '02. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1730-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2002.1115252

Filename

1115252