A multi-level generic multi-agent architecture for supervision of collective cyber-physical systems. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Occello, Michel; Jamont, Jean-Paul; Ben-Yelles, Choukri-Bey; Hoang, Thi Thanh Ha
• Is Part Of: International journal of autonomous and adaptive communications systems. Volume 12:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 109
• Page End: 128
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: multi-agent system -- collective intelligence -- multi-level -- scalability -- collective cyber-physical system -- wireless sensor network -- monitoring; Adaptive computing systems -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-8632

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems like networked embedded systems or ambient sensors networks are called large-scale artificial complex systems. They are difficult to supervise because of their numerous components in interaction relying upon physical devices, their extension and their openness. A multi-scale organisation can be a solution to make them more accessible. Multi-agent systems (MAS) are well suited for modeling large complex systems, as multi-agent organisational capabilities allow introducing multi-level observation. This paper proposes a multi-level multi-agent mechanism based on recursion for supervision and observation of large-scale artificial complex systems. It is developed as a free framework that is a decentralised application allowing truly physically decentralised MAS to communicate with abstract multi-agent layers. As an illustration, the framework is applied to a wireless sensor network supervision system.