AgentSphere における適正負荷分散のためのエージェント生成制御機構

Abstract

In the AgentSphere network where a network situation is always changed, it becomes an important subject to perform parallel distributed processing using a number suitable for efficient behavior of the whole system of agents. In order that AgentSphere might make the cooperative behavior by agents efficient, a set of agents were generated by using AgentPool. In AgentPool, the user had to specify the number of agents to be generated, and it is fixed under their execution period. So, in this paper, the control mechanism of AgentPool was improved to change the number of agents dynamically, such that as the resource with which agents can work increased, the number of agents increased, and as the resource decreased, the number of agents decreased. Our proposed method not only makes resource requirements reasonable, but is useful for power consumption reduction of the whole system.