Experience with feedback control mechanisms in self-replicating multi-agent systems

5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems -- SEP 25-27, 2007 -- Leipzig, GERMANYWOS: 000250900900014In this paper, we present an approach for adaptive replication to support fault tolerance. This approach uses a feedback control theory methodology within an adaptive replication infrastructure to determine replication degrees of replica groups. We implemented this approach in a multiagent system to survive Byzantine failures. At the end of the paper, we also provide some experimental results to show the effectiveness of our approach