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RETSINA Configuration Manager (RECoMa) This project is no longer active. Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Joseph Andrew Giampapa (garof@andrew.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.

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Project Description

As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems (MASs) present some challenging configuration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to computers, how to launch them on remote hosts, and, once the agents have been launched, how to monitor their runtime status so as to manage computing resources effectively.

In order to address these issues, we present the RETSINA Configuration Manager, RECoMa, which uses agent infrastructure such as service discovery, to assist the multi-agent system administrator in allocating, launching, and monitoring a heterogeneous distributed agent system in a distributed and networked computing environment.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Octavio H Juarez-Espinosa	Scientific/Technological Specialist	ohjuarez412@gmail.com
	Michael Rectenwald	Writer/Editor III
	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