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Title:
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SPONSOR-BASED-ARCHITECTURE FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS |
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Author(s):
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Zunera Jalil , Hajira Jabeen |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-39-3 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis, Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao (series editors:Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Sponsor, GCUs, Optimization Problem, Actors |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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217 |
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Last Page:
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221 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Collaboration and competition among agents in multi-agent systems extends to consumption of computational resources.
Management of resources is critical to the performance of multi-agent systems. This paper presents a new concept for
distributed resource management in multi-agent system based on the sponsor based approach of economics. Sponsor
based architecture is an economic framework where autonomous agents with resource requirements look for sponsors of
that resource. The notion of customer agent and sponsor agent has been used where customer agent is the one in need of
resource and sponsor is the one offering that resource. Agents pay rent in the form of currency units (GCUs) to the
sponsor and get resource units in return. Sponsors periodically advertise their packages. First we introduce the resource
allocation problem in multi-agent systems. We then briefly analyze the existing traditional, agent based and actor based
architectures for resource management. In the next section we propose a sponsor based architecture RASP (Resource
Allocation using SPonsors).We then present some experimental results showing RASP performance. |
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