Abstract
The notion of Multi-Agent System has turned out to be an appropriate modeling paradigm in dynamic application domains where adaptation and reconfiguration is required at runtime due to changing execution contexts. We present a comprehensive solution for the management of agent teams in highly dynamic environments. The main contribution is to demonstrate how Distributed Ledger technology can effectively support the organizational team management in a decentralized and self-organized manner. Our implementation builds on an extended Hyperledger Sawtooth framework. Our work has shown that the concepts of Multi-Agent System and Distributed Ledger represent an ideal combination.
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The Hyperledger Sawtooth Extension is available on GitHub 18.
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A Transaction Family defines a data model to record and store data as well as an associated Transaction Processor for the business logic of the application.
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Tests were performed on a desktop PC with Intel six-core CPU i7-9850H 2.6 Mhz and 32 GB RAM; Sawtooth peers running in virtual machines, each with Ubuntu 18.04 kernel version 5.4.0-45-generic x86_64, Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_271, and Docker version 18.09.7.
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The research was supported by the emergenCITY project as part of the LOEWE program of the state Hessen in Germany.
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Geihs, K., Jahl, A. (2024). Agent Team Management Using Distributed Ledger Technology. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Colla, V. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 801. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45648-0_7
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