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Multiagent systems have been widely used in applications that are inherently distributed such as information retrieval, network diagnosis, and distributed vehicle monitoring. The use of multiple co-operative agents offers some important advantages( such as parallelism, robustness and scalability) for those applications. However, the synchronization of those multiple agents is an important challenge, specially when they are executing on different computers.
In this paper we present a formal description of a mechanism based on deadline commitmentst o synchronize agentsin a distributed application. In our proposal, agents synchronize themselves reacting to changes in the environment. The proposal considers a loose coupling among agents with the goal of maintaining the autonomy and independency of the involved agents.
This work was supported by the CICYT project TIC2001-0660 and the DGA project P084/2001.
Work supported by the grant B132/2002 of the Aragón Government and the European Social Fund.
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Ilarri, S., Mena, E., Illarramendi, A. (2003). Self-Synchronization of Cooperative Agents in a Distributed Environment. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_7
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