Assuring the survivability of distributed multiagent systems in a stressful environment is an extremely challenging prospect. Such assurance is nonetheless critical to enable widespread, confident deployment of DMASs. The DARPA UltraLog program has developed a methodology for developing, testing, and deploying a DMAS that supports assured survivability on a given distributed military logistics application. This approach has potential general applicability for broad classes of DMASs.
Index Terms:
Distributed Internet-based software engineering tools and techniques, reliability and robustness, adaptivity support
Citation:
Marshall Brinn, Jeff Berliner, Aaron Helsinger, Todd Wright, Mike Dyson, Sue Rho, David Wells, "Extending the Limits of DMAS Survivability: The UltraLog Project," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 53-61, Sep./Oct. 2004, doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.42