Conference proceeding
Distributed Search Efficiency and Robustness in Service oriented Multi-agent Networks
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on management engineering, software engineering and service sciences, pp 9-18
14 Jan 2017
Abstract
We study decentralized searches in a large service-oriented agent network and investigate the influences of multiple factors on search efficiency. In this study we focus on overall system robustness and examine search performance in unstable environments where individual agents may fail or a system-wide attack may occur. Experimental results show that searches continue to be efficient when a large number of service agents become unavailable. Surprisingly, overall system performance in terms of a search path length metric improves with an increasing number of unavailable agents. Service unavailability also has an impact on the load balance of service agents. We plan to conduct further research to verify observed patterns and to understand related implications on system architecture design.
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- Title
- Distributed Search Efficiency and Robustness in Service oriented Multi-agent Networks
- Creators
- Weimao Ke - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on management engineering, software engineering and service sciences, pp 9-18
- Conference
- 2017 International Conference on management engineering, software engineering and service sciences
- Series
- ICMSS '17
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85018617343
- Other Identifier
- 991019173717804721