Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
LAN technologies explained
Management Information Systems
Management Information Systems
Peer-to-Peer Programming on Groove
Peer-to-Peer Programming on Groove
Small-World Topology for Multi-Agent Collaboration
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Tools and techniques for performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent network topology and complexity
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Analysis of Overlay Network Impact on Dependability
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
AOCD: A Multi-agent Based Open Architecture for Decision Support Systems
CIMCA '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Vol-2 (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06) - Volume 02
A topological description language for agent networks
APWeb'12 Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific international conference on Web Technologies and Applications
An enhanced mechanism for agent capability reuse
AMT'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Active Media Technology
Expanded Borel Cayley Graphs (Ex-BCGs): A novel communication topology for multi-agent systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Utilizing BDI Agents and a Topological Theory for Mining Online Social Networks
Fundamenta Informaticae - To Andrzej Skowron on His 70th Birthday
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Topological analysis of intelligent agent networks provides crucial information about the structure of agent distribution over a network. Performance analysis of agent network topologies helps multi-agent system developers to understand the impact of topology on system efficiency and effectiveness. Appropriate topology analysis enables the adoption of suitable frameworks for specific multi-agent systems. In this paper, we systematically classify agent network topologies and propose a novel hybrid topology for distributed multi-agent systems. We compare the performance of this topology with two other common agent network topologies-centralised and decentralised topologies-within a new multi-agent framework, called Agent-based Open Connectivity for DSS (AOCD). Three major aspects are studied for estimating topology performance, which include (i) transmission time for a set of requests; (ii) waiting time for processing requests; and (iii) memory consumption for storing agent information. We also conduct a set of AOCD topological experiments to compare the performance of hybrid and centralised agent network topologies and illustrate our experimental results in this paper.