Multi-Agent Oriented Policy-Based Management Mechanism

论文摘要

近年来,利用政策管理多Agent和分布式系统受到越来越多的关注,政策的使用可以使得管理系统行为选择的规则与系统提供的功能相分离,由于政策指导的明确性,在多Agent系统中利用政策管理思想处理系统协调和安全问题。基于政策管理的应用在一些领域具有很大的吸引力,如安全领域。随着新技术的引进和互联网的应用,用户通过互联网使用服务,使得当今网络环境安全性受到更多的关注。这就需要基于政策的管理方法,使用政策用以支持受管系统行为的动态适应。基于政策的管理机制和自治的智能Agent,本文提出一个政策管理框架,该框架目的在于通过定义和存储政策以控制Agent的行为。为了表明我们方法的可行性,我们开发了一个工具,它允许相关Agent动态执行指定政策。最后,本文描述了一个作为实例研究的网上拍卖的多Agent系统,在系统中,拍卖条款和条件都可以用政策来描述,并用以管理和协调拍卖Agent。

论文目录

• DEDICATION
• ABSTRACT
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• LIST OF FIGURES
• CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION
• 1.1 MOTIVATION
• 1.2 CONTRIBUTION
• 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS
• CHAPTER 2:BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORK
• 2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW
• 2.1.1 Agent Theory
• 2.1.2 Multi-agent System
• 2.1.3 Policy Concepts
• 2.1.4 Role Modeling in Policy-Based Management
• 2.2 RELATED WORK
• 2.2.1 IETF Policy Architecture
• 2.2.2 Formal Approaches to Policy Specification
• 2.2.3 KaOS
• 2.2.4 Ponder
• 2.2.5 Rei
• 2.2.6 Conclusion
• CHAPTER 3.POLICY-BASED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FRAMEWORK
• 3.1 DESIGN GOALS AND REQUIREMENTS
• 3.2 ARCHITECTURE OF PBM FOR MANAGING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM
• 3.2.1 Policy Specification
• 3.2.2 Policy distribution
• 3.2.3 Policy repository
• 3.3 POLICY DEFINITION
• 3.4 PROTOTYPE FOR POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• 3.4.1 General outline of the prototype
• 3.5 CONCLUSION
• CHAPTER 4.POLICY-BASED AUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• 4.1 POLICY MANAGEMENT APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
• 4.2 AUCTION MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE
• 4.3 AGENT LIFE-CYCLE
• 4.4 CONCEPT CLASS DIAGRAM
• 4.5 CONCLUSION
• CHAPTER 5.APPLICATION SCENARIO
• 5.1 A CASE STUDY
• 5.2. TOOLS USED
• 5.2.1 JADE
• 5.2.2 Oracle Data mode
• 5.2.3 JAVA
• 5.3 POLICY EXECUTION USING JAVA REFLECTION TECHNOLOGY
• 5.3.1 Java Reflection Technology Overview
• 5.3.2. Using Java Reflection in an Agent's Behavior
• 5.4 IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW
• 5.4.1 Policy Management
• 5.4.2 Policy Repository Viewer
• 5.4.3 Policy repository
• 5.4.4 Auction management
• 5.5 CONCLUSION
• CHAPTER 6.CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
• REFERENCES
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• APPENDIX A:PUBLISHED PAPER LIST
• 摘要