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Chapter 2 outlined that agent can make faults and suffer from faults like any other system and that autonomy and pro-activeness properties of agents are a source for agent faults. Moreover some specific research exists on fault tolerant agents. What we were looking for then was a tool to get the measure of those faults and fault tolerance methods with regard to multi-agents systems needs. This chapter presents, first, a conventional fault classification. Then this conventional fault classification is used as the basis for the analysis, presented in a second part, of applicability of the conventional fault classification considering the faults observed by multi-agent systems designers.
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In [1], there were eight attributes as capability was separated into: (1) intent with deliberate and non-deliberate faults as values and (2) capability with accidental and incompetence faults as values. But the intent viewpoint appeared redundant and so authors chose to withdraw it.
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Potiron, K., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Taillibert, P. (2013). Fault Classification. In: From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5046-6_3
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