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Some handling methods had been studied into Multi-Agent System (MAS) domain, adapting to their specificities and capabilities but increasing the large amount of fault tolerance methods. Therefore, unless being an expert in fault tolerance, it is difficult to choose, evaluate or compare fault tolerance methods. This prevents a lot of developed applications not only to be more user friendly but more importantly to, at least, be tolerant to common faults. As stated in the introduction, our goal in building this fault classification was to find a way to design fault-tolerant MAS. The fault classification presented in this book identifies the faults MAS may be subject to, and also permits MAS designers and developers to specify fault tolerance with regard to the required properties. Moreover this book also submits the possibility of unifying the terms used by MAS researchers in describing what their work addresses.
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Potiron, K., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Taillibert, P. (2013). Fault Classification Attributes as an Ontology to Build Fault Tolerant MAS. 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_6
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