Complexity Measurement of Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a promising software paradigm. Considered as a natural metaphor to modeling complex systems, MAS are applied to develop a wide range of applications. However, the developed system’s complexity is a hard obstacle to understand and maintain them. In this paper, some metric...

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Published inMultiagent System Technologies pp. 188 - 201
Main Authors Marir, Toufik, Mokhati, Farid, Bouchelaghem-Seridi, Hassina, Tamrabet, Zouheyr
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Complexity
JADE
Measurement
Multi-Agent Systems
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ISBN3319115839
9783319115832
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_13

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Summary:Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a promising software paradigm. Considered as a natural metaphor to modeling complex systems, MAS are applied to develop a wide range of applications. However, the developed system’s complexity is a hard obstacle to understand and maintain them. In this paper, some metrics are presented to measure the complexity of MAS. The proposition of these metrics is passed through the proposition of a complexity model for MAS. To validate our proposal, a tool has been developed to measure the JADE-based applications complexity. Furthermore, the collected metrics can also be used as a base to estimate the required effort to maintain JADE-based applications.
ISBN:3319115839
9783319115832
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_13