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Transactional Agents

Towards a Robust Multi-Agent System

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Khaled Nagi

    1. Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2249)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-4

  3. Application Scenario

    Pages 5-19

  4. Overview of Agent Technology

    Pages 21-39

  5. Overview of Transaction Processing

    Pages 41-61

  6. Proposed Approach: Transactional Agents

    Pages 63-78

  7. The Agent Transaction Model

    Pages 79-115

  8. Robustness Guaranteeing Mechanisms

    Pages 117-133

  9. Interacting with the Execution Agent

    Pages 135-150

  10. Simulation Study

    Pages 151-159

  11. Simulation Results

    Pages 161-181

  12. Summary and Future Work

    Pages 183-185

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 187-205
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The term “agent” is one of those catchwords that mean widely differing things to different people. To telecommunications people it is little more than a mobile piece of code that may be executed at any place. At the other extreme, AI people often associate with agents human-like traits such as social behavior. In between, software people view agents as fairly self-contained pieces of software that, at the low end, pretty much act like objects and, at the high end, more or less auto- mously decide when and how to react to stimuli or proactively initiate effects that can be observed from their environment. Software agents are particularly important when it comes to distributed en- ronments. There, much of the communication takes place asynchronously, that is the sequence of events cannot be planned ahead in all detail. Instead, agents are given rules as to how to interpret the current situation and, given a common goal, so that they adjust their response accordingly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Khaled Nagi

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