Distributed Intelligent Agents for Control, Diagnosis and Repair
Wolfgang Nejdl and Martin Werner
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the use of distributed intelligent agents for
building a system incorporating the tasks control, diagnosis and
repair. We first discuss general problems associated with distributed
systems and with distributed CDR-systems specifically. We then
describe the general operations, which a CDR-system has to perform and
the relations existing between the control-, diagnosis- and
repair-component. We point out specific questions which arise when a
CDR-system is implemented using a multi-agent-structure and the
general tendencies in answering these questions. As there is no
single best organization for all task environments, we examine two
small example applications in the network domain and the corresponding
CDR-systems. These examples show some of the variety of suitable
architectures for CDR systems, unifying traits still have to be
evaluated.