Dynamic change impact analysis for maintaining and evolving agent systems

Authors:
Hoa Khanh Dam;Aditya Ghose
Affiliations:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia;University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In contrast to an increasing number of agent-based applications in various domains, there has been very little work on maintenance and evolution of agent systems. This paper addresses this gap with a focus on change impact analysis, i.e. estimating the potential effects of changes before they are made as an agent system evolves. We propose a technique for performing impact analysis in an agent system using dynamic information about agent behaviour. Our approach builds a representation of an agent's behaviour by analyzing its execution traces which consist of goals and plans, and uses this representation to estimate impacts.