基于C#的异常处理及应用

C#提供了一种结构化异常处理方法,能处理程序运行时出现的任何意外或异常情况。该方法可使程序区分不同的错误类型,并做出不同的响应,使程序更高效、更健壮,更易于维护。     

浅谈C#程序中的异常处理机制

程序设计中,异常是一个不可忽略的元素,因此,有效的异常处理是程序完善的重要标志。重点介绍了C#语言中的异常处理机制。主要包括异常的基础知识、异常处理机制、程序设计中的异常三个部分。异常基础知识部分,讲解了什么是异常,异常发生的情况及主要的异常类,使读者对程序异常有基本的认识。异常处理机制部分,从应用程序和理论两方面对C#语言中对异常的处理机制进行讲解,详细分析了三种异常处理语句。程序设计中的异常部分,通过一个简单的程序开发中的例子扩展异常机制在程序设计中的应用,拓宽软件开发人员的设计思路。     

An Exception Handling of Rule-Based Reasoning Using Case-Based Reasoning

In this paper, we propose the CCAR (Combining Case-based And Rule-based reasoning) model for an exception handling of Rule-based Reasoning using Case-based Reasoning. The central idea of the model proposed in this paper is to represent the exception of a rule as a case, and to utilize the case for a solution to a problem, and then to search the case memory to retrieve a case which violates the conclusion of a rule. If the similarity between a target problem and the selected case is high, the conclusion of a case is applied. Otherwise, the conclusion of rule-based reasoning is applied.     

基于补偿业务生成图的组合服务异常处理方法研究

为提高组合Web服务执行的一致性、可靠性,提出一种基于补偿业务生成图的组合服务异常处理方法.基于业务流程中任务间补偿依赖关系,讨论了补偿业务生成图的自动生成问题.重点讨论了补偿任务、补偿目标和服务转让应用模式,并相应地介绍了支持框架和相关技术.在此基础上设计了补偿依赖关系、补偿业务生成图的自动生成及组合服务执行过程中异常处理算法.当业务流程出现异常采取向前或向后恢复处理时,该方法在保证补偿实现的同时,兼顾补偿服务不存在或补偿服务代价过高的问题,提高了业务流程执行过程中的自动化水平和自适应能力.仿真结果证实,该方法保证了异常发生时组合服务执行的可靠性和一致性.     

Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Systems Using Fault-Estimation-in-the-Loop: Dynamic Event-Triggered Case

The paper develops a novel framework of consensus control with fault-estimation-in-the-loop for multi-agent systems(MASs) in the presence of faults. A dynamic event-triggered protocol(DETP) by adding an auxiliary variable is utilized to improve the utilization of communication resources. First, a novel estimator with a noise bias is put forward to estimate the existed fault and then a consensus controller with fault compensation(FC) is adopted to realize the demand of reliability and safety of a...     

Struts技术在电能计量装置异常处理系统中的应用

随着电网的商业化、市场化的深入发展,市场运行模式和规则不断修改和完善,要求电能计量系统具有更强的开放性和灵活性,方便进行系统扩充、修改和引入第三方软件和设备。山西省朔州供电局分公司为适应市场需求,增强电能计量装置异常处理分析的便捷性和准确性,针对其具体要求,设计了基于Struts框架技术的电能计量异常处理分析系统,并对应用中涉及的关键技术进行了分析。     

Distributed Robust Containment Control of Linear Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems: An Output Regulation Approach

In this paper, we consider the robust output containment problem of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems under fixed directed networks. A distributed dynamic observer based on the leaders’ measurable output was designed to estimate a convex combination of the leaders’ states. First, for the case of followers with identical state dimensions, distributed dynamic state and output feedback control laws were designed based on the state-coupled item and the internal model compensator to drive the uncertain followers into the leaders’ convex hull within the output regulation framework. Subsequently, we extended theoretical results to the case where followers have nonidentical state dimensions. By establishing virtual errors between the dynamic observer and followers, a new distributed dynamic output feedback control law was constructed using only the states of the compensator to solve the robust output containment problem. Finally, two numerical simulations verified the effectiveness of the designed schemes.      

Robust Leader-Following Output Regulation of Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems With Time-Varying Delay

In this paper, the robust analysis and design of leader-following output regulation for multi-agent systems described by general linear models is given in presence of timevarying delay and model uncertainty. To this aim, a new regulation protocol for the closed-loop multi-agent system under a directed graph is proposed. An important specification of the proposed protocol is to guarantee the leader-following output regulation for uncertain multi-agent systems with both stable and unstable agents. Since many signals can be approximated by a combination of the stationary and ramp signals, the presented results work for adequate variety of the leaders. The analysis and design conditions are presented in terms of certain matrix inequalities. The method proposed can be used for both stationary and ramp leaders. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.      

Robust Consensus Tracking Control of Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems With Local Disturbance Rejection

In this paper, a new distributed consensus tracking protocol incorporating local disturbance rejection is devised for a multi-agent system with heterogeneous dynamic uncertainties and disturbances over a directed graph. It is of two-degree-of-freedom nature. Specifically, a robust distributed controller is designed for consensus tracking, while a local disturbance estimator is designed for each agent without requiring the input channel information of disturbances. The condition for asymptotic di...     

Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems Using a Networked Predictive PID Tracking Scheme

With the rapid development of network technology and control technology, a networked multi-agent control system is a key direction of modern industrial control systems, such as industrial Internet systems. This paper studies the tracking control problem of networked multi-agent systems with communication constraints, where each agent has no information on the dynamics of other agents except their outputs. A networked predictive proportional integral derivative(PPID) tracking scheme is proposed t...     

Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning: The State of the Art

Cooperative multi-agent systems (MAS) are ones in which several agents attempt, through their interaction, to jointly solve tasks or to maximize utility. Due to the interactions among the agents, multi-agent problem complexity can rise rapidly with the number of agents or their behavioral sophistication. The challenge this presents to the task of programming solutions to MAS problems has spawned increasing interest in machine learning techniques to automate the search and optimization process. We provide a broad survey of the cooperative multi-agent learning literature. Previous surveys of this area have largely focused on issues common to specific subareas (for example, reinforcement learning, RL or robotics). In this survey we attempt to draw from multi-agent learning work in a spectrum of areas, including RL, evolutionary computation, game theory, complex systems, agent modeling, and robotics. We find that this broad view leads to a division of the work into two categories, each with its own special issues: applying a single learner to discover joint solutions to multi-agent problems (team learning), or using multiple simultaneous learners, often one per agent (concurrent learning). Additionally, we discuss direct and indirect communication in connection with learning, plus open issues in task decomposition, scalability, and adaptive dynamics. We conclude with a presentation of multi-agent learning problem domains, and a list of multi-agent learning resources.     

DoS攻击下基于多率采样的多智能体系统安全一致性

本 文 研 究 了 一 类 带 有 多 率 采 样 的 线 性 多 智 能 体 系 统(Multiagent Systems, MASs)在 拒 绝 服务(Denial-of-Service, DoS)攻击下的安全一致性控制问题, 其中DoS攻击通常阻断智能体之间的信息传输. 本文将多率采样在网络化控制系统中的结果推广到了多智能体系统, 并考虑了非理想通信网络环境. 首先, 通过引入一个匹配机制来同步由多率采样引起的智能体不同状态分量的采样数据. 然后, 在DoS攻击下, 针对带有多率采样的线性MAS提出了一个基于多率采样的安全一致性控制器. 通过使用李雅普诺夫稳定性理论和切换系统方法, 获得了包含DoS 攻击持续时间以及攻击频率的安全一致性充分条件. 最后, 给出了一个仿真例子来验证所提方法的有效性, 并给出了多率采样与单率采样机制的性能对比分析.     

Physical Safety and Cyber Security Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems: A Survey of Recent Advances

Multi-agent systems(MASs)are typically composed of multiple smart entities with independent sensing,communication,computing,and decision-making capabilities.Nowadays,MASs have a wide range of applications in smart grids,smart manufacturing,sensor networks,and intelligent transportation systems.Control of the MASs are often coordinated through information interaction among agents,which is one of the most important factors affecting coordination and cooperation performance.However,unexpected physical faults and cyber attacks on a single agent may spread to other agents via information interaction very quickly,and thus could lead to severe degradation of the whole system performance and even destruction of MASs.This paper is concerned with the safety/security analysis and synthesis of MASs arising from physical faults and cyber attacks,and our goal is to present a comprehensive survey on recent results on fault estimation,detection,diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of MASs,and cyber attack detection and secure control of MASs subject to two typical cyber attacks.Finally,the paper concludes with some potential future research topics on the security issues of MASs.     

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking of Multi-Agent Systems Under Cyber-Attacks

This paper investigates the distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems with general incipient and abrupt time-varying actuator faults under cyber-attacks. First, a decentralized unknown input observer is established to estimate relative states and actuator faults. Second, the estimated and output neighboring information is combined with distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking controllers. Criteria of reaching leader-following exponential consensus tracking of multi-agent systems under both connectivity-maintained and connectivity-mixed attacks are derived with average dwelling time, attack frequency, and attack activation rate technique, respectively. Simulation example verifies the effectiveness of the fault-tolerant consensus tracking algorithm.      

To Intervene or not to Intervene: The Dilemma of Management by Exception

Future air traffic management architectures propose to give aircraft more flight path autonomy and turn the air traffic controller into a manager of exceptions. This article reports on one experiment in a series of studies that empirically explored the cognitive work underlying management by exception in air traffic control. Active practitioners (controllers, pilots, dispatchers) were prepared on the rules of the envisioned system and presented with a series of future incidents, each of which they were required to jointly resolve. Management by exception turns out to trap human controllers in a double bind, where intervening early seems appealing but is difficult to justify (airspace throughput) and carry out (controller workload problems). Late interventions are just as difficult, since controllers will have to take over in the middle of a potentially challenging or deteriorating situation. Computerised decision support that flags exceptions migrates the decision criterion into a device, creating a threshold crossing that is typically set either too early or too late. This article lays out the intertwined trade-offs and dilemmas for the exception manager, and makes recommendations for cooperative human–machine architectures in future air traffic management.     

The Advantages of Designing Adaptive Business Agents Using Reputation Modeling Compared to the Approach of Recursive Modeling

Adaptive business agents operate in electronic marketplaces, learning from past experiences to make effective decisions on behalf of their users. How best to design these agents is an open question. In this article, we present an approach for the design of adaptive business agents that uses a combination of reinforcement learning and reputation modeling. In particular, we take into account the fact that multiple selling agents may offer the same good with different qualities, and that selling agents may alter the quality of their goods. We also consider the possibility of dishonest agents in the marketplace. Our buying agents exploit the reputation of selling agents to avoid interaction with the disreputable ones, and therefore to reduce the risk of purchasing low value goods. We then experimentally compare the performance of our agents with those designed using a recursive modeling approach. We are able to show that agents designed according to our algorithms achieve better performance in terms of satisfaction and computational time and as such are well suited for the design of electronic marketplaces.     

Infrastructure for Design, Deployment and Experimentation of Distributed Agent-based Systems: The Requirements, The Technologies, and An Example

This paper discusses infrastructure for design, development, and experimentation of multi-agent systems. Multi-agent system design requires determining (1) how domain requirements drive the use of agents and AI techniques, (2) what competencies agents need in a MAS, and (3) which techniques implement those competencies. Deployment requirements include code reuse, parallel development through formal standardized object specifications, multi-language and multi-platform support, simulation and experimentation facilities, and user interfaces to view internal module, agent, and system operations. We discuss how standard infrastructure technologies such as OMG IDL, OMG CORBA, Java, and VRML support these services. Empirical evaluation of complex software systems requires iteration through combinations of experimental parameters and recording desired data. Infrastructure software can ease the setup, running, and analysis of large-scale computational experiments. The development of the Sensible Agent Testbed and architecture over the past six years provides a concrete example. The design rationale for the Sensible Agent architecture emphasizes domain-independent requirements and rapid deployment to new application domains. The Sensible Agent Testbed is a suite of tools providing or assisting in setting up, running, visually monitoring, and chronicling empirical testing and operation of complex, distributed multi-agent systems. A thorough look at the various Sensible Agents infrastructure pieces illustrates the engineering principles essential for multi-agent infrastructure, while documenting the software for users.     

Two Ways to Grid: The Contribution of Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) Mechanisms to Service-Centric and Resource-Centric Lifecycles

Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) support service lifecycle tasks, including Development, Deployment, Discovery and Use. We observe that there are two disparate ways to use Grid SOAs such as the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) as exemplified in the Globus Toolkit (GT3/4). One is a traditional enterprise SOA use where end-user services are developed, deployed and resourced behind firewalls, for use by external consumers: a service-centric (or ‘first-order’) approach. The other supports end-user development, deployment, and resourcing of applications across organizations via the use of execution and resource management services: A Resource-centric (or ‘second-order’) approach. We analyze and compare the two approaches using a combination of empirical experiments and an architectural evaluation methodology (scenario, mechanism, and quality attributes) to reveal common and distinct strengths and weaknesses. The impact of potential improvements (which are likely to be manifested by GT4) is estimated, and opportunities for alternative architectures and technologies explored. We conclude by investigating if the two approaches can be converged or combined, and if they are compatible on shared resources.     

Using Web Analytics to Assess Traffic to the Mandela Portal: The Case of African Countries

This article is a longitudinal assessment of the visitors to the Mandela Portal between 2009 and 2016. It is based on web analytics methodology that consists of a four-step process with the first and second steps using data collected by Google Analytics tool. The article outlines trends of global figures as well as specific trends within the top ten African countries. It further explored statistics from the top five African countries: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ghana. There are two main findings: those related to web traffic trends and those exploring the trustworthiness of Google Analytics data.