Achieving intelligent agents and its feasibility in swarm-array computing

Varghese, B. and McKee, G. T. (2009) Achieving intelligent agents and its feasibility in swarm-array computing. WSEAS Transactions on Computers, 8 (8). 1276 - 1285. ISSN 1109-2750

Abstract/Summary

The work reported in this paper proposes ‘Intelligent Agents’, a Swarm-Array computing approach focused to apply autonomic computing concepts to parallel computing systems and build reliable systems for space applications. Swarm-array computing is a robotics a swarm robotics inspired novel computing approach considered as a path to achieve autonomy in parallel computing systems. In the intelligent agent approach, a task to be executed on parallel computing cores is considered as a swarm of autonomous agents. A task is carried to a computing core by carrier agents and can be seamlessly transferred between cores in the event of a predicted failure, thereby achieving self-* objectives of autonomic computing. The approach is validated on a multi-agent simulator.