Reflex Autonomicity in an Agent-Based Security System :: The Autonomic Access Control System

The Imminent Complexity Quagmire in Pervasive Computing--Autonomic Agents a Solution?

“…The aim was to develop an agent-based system incorporating concepts of reflex autonomicity, apoptosis and agent cloning to provide backup servers [11].…”

“…other agent will be able to either take over primary functioning (if secondary) or clone itself to create a new secondary instance (if primary)[11].…”

“…If the primary is registered with the DF but there is no response received from the primary before a user-determined time-out, or if the response received is not understood (failed communication), the primary agent is terminated and the secondary agent is again promoted to primary status.The JADE AchieveREResponder and AchieveREInitiator classes were used to develop the Heartbeat mechanism. These classes implement the FIPA-Request interaction protocols wherein the initiator performs a communicative act by sending a message within the scope of an interaction protocol in order to verify whether or not the Rational Effect of the communicative act has been achieved[11].…”

“…The main container holds the JADE DF and AMS agents together with the primary configurationagent. The secondary configuration agent is located on a different secondary container[11].…”