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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

DOI

10.3906/elk-1101-1044

Abstract

In this paper, we present a load-sharing approach based on the refactoring of agents. According to our approach, the role(s) that makes an agent overloaded is identified and transferred to less loaded agents. The excess workload of this heavily loaded agent is then transferred to the new agent. This approach defines a new agent, called the ``monitor agent,'' which monitors the workload of agents in the organization and decides about the refactoring of the agents. The monitor agent uses the platform ontology, which explicitly describes the components of the agent organization, including agents and their roles, plans, and workloads. This ontology is updated by the monitor agent in every monitor cycle.

Keywords

Distributed computing, dynamic load sharing, multiagent systems, software agents

First Page

219

Last Page

229

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