Measurement techniques for multiagent systems

  • Authors:
  • Robert N. Lass;Evan A. Sultanik;William C. Regli

  • Affiliations:
  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA;Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA;Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

  • Venue:
  • PerMIS '08 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Multiagent Systems (MAS) are a software paradigm for building large scale intelligent distributed systems. Increasingly, these systems are being deployed on handheld computing devices, or on non-traditional networks such as mobile ad-hoc networks and satellite links. These systems present new challenges for computer scientists in describing the performance of a system and analyzing competing systems. This paper surveys existing metrics that can be used to describe MASes and related components, and provides a framework for analyzing MASes with a case study using DCOPolis, a distributed constraint reasoning system.