Scalable and Reactive Multi Micro-Agents System Middleware for Massively Distributed Systems

Abstract

IT transformation has revolutionized the business landscape and changed most of organizations business model into digital and innovation driven firms. To fully take advantage of this digitalization and the exponential growth of data, organizations need to rely on resilient, scalable, extremely connected, highly available & very performant systems. To meet this need, this paper presents a model of middleware for multi micro-agents system based on reactive programming and designed for massively distributed systems and HighPerformance Computing, especially to face big data challenges. This middleware is based on multi-agents systems (MAS) which are known as a reliable solution for High Performance Computing. This proposal framework is built on abstraction and modularity principles through a multi-layered architecture. The design choices aim to ensure cooperation between heterogeneous distributed systems by decoupling the communication model and the cognitive pattern of micro agents. To ensure high scalability and to overcome networks latency, the proposal architecture uses distribution model of data & computing, that allows an adaptation of the grid size as needed. The resilience problem is addressed by adopting the same mechanism as Hazelcast middleware, thanks to his peer-to-peer architecture with no single point of failure.