Transactional Agents Towards a Robust Multi-Agent System /

• Main Author: Nagi, Khaled (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2249
• Subjects: Data structures (Computer science).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Database management.; Software engineering.; Information storage and retrieval.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Database Management.; Software Engineering.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

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 suc...

Table of Contents:

• Application Scenario
• Overview of Agent Technology
• Overview of Transaction Processing
• Proposed Approach: Transactional Agents
• The Agent Transaction Model
• Robustness Guaranteeing Mechanisms
• Interacting with the Execution Agent
• Simulation Study
• Simulation Results
• Summary and Future Work.