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Adopting trust and assurance as indicators for the reassignment of responsibilities in multi-agent systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2015

Benjamin Gâteau ,
Moussa Ouedraogo ,
Christophe Feltus ,
Guy Guemkam ,
Grégoire Danoy ,
Marcin Seredynski ,
Samee U. Khan ,
Djamel Khadraoui  and
Pascal Bouvry
Benjamin Gâteau
Affiliation:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: benjamin.gateu@tudor.lu
Moussa Ouedraogo
Affiliation:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: benjamin.gateu@tudor.lu
Christophe Feltus
Affiliation:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: benjamin.gateu@tudor.lu
Guy Guemkam
Affiliation:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: benjamin.gateu@tudor.lu
Grégoire Danoy
Affiliation:
CSC Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, 6 rue Coudenhove Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: gregoire.danoy@uni.lu, pascal.bouvry@uni.lu
Marcin Seredynski
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, 6 rue Coudenhove Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: marcin.seredynski@uni.lu
Samee U. Khan
Affiliation:
NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA e-mail: samee.khan@ndsu.edu
Djamel Khadraoui
Affiliation:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: benjamin.gateu@tudor.lu
Pascal Bouvry
Affiliation:
CSC Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, 6 rue Coudenhove Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg e-mail: gregoire.danoy@uni.lu, pascal.bouvry@uni.lu
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Abstract

Multi-agent systems have been widely used in the literature, including for the monitoring of distributed systems. However, one of the unresolved issues in this technology remains in the reassignment of the responsibilities of monitoring agents when some of them become unable to meet their obligations. This paper proposes a new approach for solving this problem based on (a) the gathering of evidence on whether the agent can or cannot fulfil the tasks it has been assigned and (b) the reassignment of the task to alternative agents using their trust level as a selection parameter. A weather station case study is proposed as an instantiation of the proposed model.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2: Intelligent Computing in Large–Scale Systems , March 2015 , pp. 187 - 200
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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