RI | Research | Projects | Discovery

Text only version of this site

Discovery Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Lori R Price (lrprice@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - January 2006.

Project Description

Discovery is a mechanism by which agents and infrastructural services can find each other in ad-hoc networks. Discovery enables agents/services/servers to auto-configure with reference to each other, thus facilitating interactions. With Discovery, agent systems no longer require the tedious manual configuration of system locations, host names, and port numbers, before being able to operate.

Agents and infrastructural services that use Discovery can implement advanced behaviors to respond to their changing environments. Servers can locate each other, share information and coordinate their operations. Client agents can learn of new servers/services as they become operational, and automatically re-register/re-advertise with the new system components, to ensure registration availability and increased system fault tolerance. Agents can also be programed to survive initialization within incomplete environments, and to finish initialization once all needed peer systems are available, online, and active. This Discovery feature reduces the problems associated with previous implementations that relied on strict, order-specific startup sequences.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Katia Sycara	Research Professor	katia@cs.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Configuration Management for Multi-Agent Systems
  J.A. Giampapa, O.H. Juarez-Espinosa, and K. Sycara
  The 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036, USA, June, 2001, pp. 230-231. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [68 KB], ps.gz [45 KB] copyrighted