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Fault-Tolerance in XJAF Agent Middleware

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In this paper we will present one approach and solution for the implementation of load-balancing and fault-tolerance in the XJAF agent middleware. One of the most significant features of this middleware is the use of modern enterprise technologies. Our solution relies on those technologies. First we will briefly present the XJAF architecture and its essential features and functionalities. Then we will compare results of the execution of the same example in two multi-agent frameworks that support clustering: our in-house developed system (XJAF) and widely known and used JADE. We shall demonstrate that a distributed agent application deployed on the XJAF middleware cluster can survive failure of its nodes, while the JADE-based deployment cannot.

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This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, through project no. OI174023: “Intelligent techniques and their integration into wide-spectrum decision support”, as well as a collaboration agreement between University of Novi Sad, University of Craiova, SRIPAS and Warsaw University of Technology.

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    Costin Bădică

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Ivanović, M., Ivković, J., Vidaković, M., Bădică, C. (2018). Fault-Tolerance in XJAF Agent Middleware. In: Thanh Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11120. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99810-7_11

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