Diagnostic Agents for Distributed Systems

Peter Fröhlich, Iara de Almeida Móra, Wolfgang Nejdl and Michael Schroeder

Abstract

In this paper we introduce an agent--based framework for the diagnosis of spatially distributed technical systems, based on a suitable distributed diagnosis architecture. We implement the framework using the concepts of vivid agents and extended logic programming. To demonstrate the power of our approach, we solve a diagnosis example from the domain of unreliable datagram protocols. The full paper is available as a postscript file .