Publication - Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent Adaptability

Authors: Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor, Vincent, Regis, Bazzan, Ana, and Xuan, Ping
Title: Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent Adaptability
Abstract: Agents working under real world conditions may face an environment capable of changing rapidly from one moment to the next, either through perceived faults, unexpected interactions or adversarial intrusions. To gracefully and efficiently handle such situations, the members of a multi-agent system must be able to adapt, either by evolving internal structures and behavior or repairing or isolating those external influenced believed to be malfunctioning. The first step in achieving adaptability is diagnosis - being able to accurately detect and determine the cause of a fault based on its symptoms. In this paper we examine how domain independent diagnosis plays a role in multi-agent systems, including the information required to support and produce diagnoses. Particular attention is paid to coordination based diagnosis directed by a causal model. Several examples are described in the context of an Intelligent Home environment, and the issue of diagnostic sensitivity versus efficiency is addressed.
Keywords: Coordination, Diagnosis, IHome, JAF, Survivability
Publication: Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, pp. 211 - 219
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Date: January 2000
Sources: PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/99-03.ps.gz
HTML: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/diagnosis1/
PDF: /Documents/99-03.pdf
Reference: Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor, Vincent, Regis, Bazzan, Ana, and Xuan, Ping. Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent Adaptability. Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 211-219. January 2000.
bibtex: 
@article{Horling-123,
  author    = "Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser and Regis Vincent
               and Ana Bazzan and Ping Xuan",
  title     = "{Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent
               Adaptability}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability
               Conference and Exposition",
  publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
  pages     = "211-219",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "2000",
  address   = "Hilton Head, South Carolina",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/123",
}