Commitment Management in Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems

摘要

Today, real-time systems should be designed to be flexible and adaptable. For thisreason, the multi-agent system paradigm seems to be appropriate for real-time system devel-opment. In the case of distributed real-time systems, complexity is added when a node mustdelegate a task with temporal restrictions to another node. This delegation can be modeled as acommitment act in a multi-agent system. This paper presents a commitment managementframework that is specifically designed for real-time agents. This framework allows the agentto decide (in a bounded time) if it has the necessary resources and time to do the required task,and thus accept the commitment. This paper also presents an execution example that showshow this framework works.