ALP Clusters - OBJSALP集群对象结构体.ppt

ALP Overview ALP Clusters A Java-Agents Approach to Global Logistics Supply-Chain Management Outline Introduction What is the Problem Space? What is the ALP Architecture? ALP Architecture Details The ALP Cluster, Cluster Interactions, Plug-ins, Logical Data Model 1998 Cluster Society and Example Threads ALP as Agent Technology What’s So Hard AboutGlobal Logistics Supply-Chain Management? Very large domain and organization space Very large, dynamic type space Highly distributed Highly dynamic continuously operating system Highly reliable aggregate behavior required Difficult overall optimization problem How does the ALP ArchitectureAddress the Problem Space? Peer-to-Peer society of agents (clusters) Local behavior Global Behavior Indefinitely Scaleable and Dynamically Extensible Architecture Heterogeneous operating environment Highly distributed development Log Plan Object Collections Logical Data Model: LDM ALP Compared with Other Approaches Centralized (HUB or monolithic) approaches don’t scale Centralized data storage Centralized control logic / rule base too complex to model Communications bottlenecks ALP distributed autonomous peer-to-peer approach Reflects actual interactions among modeled entities Actual number of clusters touched by a given cluster is very small ALP Architecture Description Implementation Details 100% Java Implementation UNIX/NT interoperation Uses ObjectSpace JGL Toolkit ObjectSpace Voyager? for inter-process communication ALP Configuration Entities Society - Entire body of interoperating clusters Node - Set of clusters running independently in a single JVM Cluster - Independently operating agent modeling behavior of a particular organization or party in ALP Plug-in - Java software component added to a cluster giving it domain or configuration specific behavior The ALP Cluster Cluster Interactions Cluster Protocols Cluster A can ASSIGN a task to Cluster B Cluster B asynchronously informs Cluster A about the cost associated with