Title :
Intelligent agents and BIST/BISR - working together in distributed systems
Author :
Miclea, Liviu ; Szilárd, Enyedi ; Benso, Alfredo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract :
This paper presents an attempt of using intelligent agents for testing and repairing a distributed system, whose elements may or may not have embedded BIST (built-in self-test) and BISR (built-in self-repair) facilities. The agents are software modules that perform monitoring, diagnosis and repair of the faults. Together they form a society whose members communicate, set goals and solve tasks. To demonstrate the idea we used the Zeus agent development environment. Two examples of distributed systems are presented in order to illustrate the cooperative model for fault diagnosis and repair.
Keywords :
automatic testing; built-in self test; condition monitoring; distributed processing; fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; multi-agent systems; software agents; BISR; BIST; Zeus agent development environment; built-in self-repair; built-in self-test; cooperative fault diagnosis/repair model; distributed system repair; distributed system testing; fault diagnosis; fault monitoring; fault repair; intelligent agents; software modules; Automatic testing; Automation; Built-in self-test; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Computerized monitoring; Fault diagnosis; Intelligent agent; Software standards; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Test Conference, 2002. Proceedings. International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7542-4
DOI :
10.1109/TEST.2002.1041849