A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures

Authors:
Iván García-Magariño;Massimo Cossentino;Valeria Seidita
Affiliations:
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain;ICAR CNR, Palermo, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metrics in software developments. However, several research groups of experts in agent-oriented software engineering agree that classical software metrics and object-oriented metrics cannot directly measure the quality of MAS architectures. For this reason, this work proposes a suite of metrics to measure certain quality attributes of MAS architectures, considering agents and their organization. Most of these metrics are inspired by object-oriented metrics but they are adapted to agent-oriented concepts. Proposed metrics are validated by the application to four problem domains and eight architectures.