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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This project is no longer active.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.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Joseph Andrew Giampapa - Project Manager <garof@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Octavio H Juarez-Espinosa - Scientific/Technological Specialist <ohjuarez412@gmail.com>
• [Home] Michael Rectenwald - Writer/Editor III
• [Home] Katia Sycara - Research Professor <katia@cs.cmu.edu>

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