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Title: Achieving Software Robustness Via Large-Scale Multiagent Systems
Author: Michael N. Huhns, Vance T. Holderfield, and Rosa L. Zavala Gutierrez
Book Tittle: Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
Publisher: Springer Verlag, LNAI Volume 2603, Berlin
Year: 2003
Abstract: This paper describes how multiagent systems can be used to achieve robust software, one of the major goals of software engineering. The paper first positions itself within the software engineering domain. It then develops the hypothesis that robust software can be achieved through redundancy, where the redundancy is achieved by agents that have diĀ®erent algorithms but similar responsibilities. The agents are produced by wrapping conventional algorithms with a minimal set of agent capabilities, which we specify. We describe our initial experiments in verifying our hypothesis and present results that show an improvement in robustness due to redundancy. We conclude by speculating on the implications of multiagent-based redundancy for software development.

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  author =	 {Michael N. Huhns and Vance T. Holderfield and Rosa
                  L. Zavala Gutierrez},
  title =	 {Achieving Software Robustness Via Large-Scale
                  Multiagent Systems},
  booktitle =	 {Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent
                  Systems},
  publisher =	 {Springer Verlag, LNAI Volume 2603, Berlin},
  year =	 2003,
  abstract =	 {This paper describes how multiagent systems can be
                  used to achieve robust software, one of the major
                  goals of software engineering. The paper first
                  positions itself within the software engineering
                  domain. It then develops the hypothesis that robust
                  software can be achieved through redundancy, where
                  the redundancy is achieved by agents that have
                  diĀ®erent algorithms but similar
                  responsibilities. The agents are produced by
                  wrapping conventional algorithms with a minimal set
                  of agent capabilities, which we specify. We describe
                  our initial experiments in verifying our hypothesis
                  and present results that show an improvement in
                  robustness due to redundancy. We conclude by
                  speculating on the implications of multiagent-based
                  redundancy for software development.},
  keywords =     {multiagent},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/huhns03a.pdf},
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