The Stability, Scalability and Performance of Multi-agent Systems
BT Technology Journal
Distributed Performance Monitoring: Methods, Tools, and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Supporting internet-scale multi-agent systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering - DKE 40
A scalable monitoring architecture for managing distributed multimedia systems
Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP TC6/WG6.4/WG6.6 International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
Autopilot: Adaptive Control of Distributed Applications
HPDC '98 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Run-time Detection in Parallel and Distributed Systems: Application to Safety-Critical Systems
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A Framework to Control Emergent Survivability of Multi Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Designing Dependable Agent Systems for Mobile Wireless Networks
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Extending the Limits of DMAS Survivability: The UltraLog Project
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Topological analysis of AOCD-based agent networks and experimental results
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Middleware Support for Performance Improvement of MABS Applications in the Grid Environment
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VIII
A cognitive-based agent architecture for autonomous situation analysis
PerMIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Scalable real-time monitoring system for ubiquitous smart space
Information Processing Letters
A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Performance measuring framework for grid market middleware
EPEW'07 Proceedings of the 4th European performance engineering conference on Formal methods and stochastic models for performance evaluation
Detection of undesirable communication patterns in multi-agent systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems (MAS) offers challenges that must be addressed explicitly in the agent infrastructure. Performance data is widely distributed and voluminous, and poor data collection can impact the operation of the system itself. However, performance metrics are essential to internal system function, e.g., autonomous adaptation to dynamic environments, as well as to external assessment. In this paper we describe the tools, techniques, and results of performance characterization of the Cougaar distributed agent architecture. These techniques include infrastructure instrumentation, plugin-based instrumentation of agents, and dynamic control of metric collection. We introduce multiple redundant "channels" for metric delivery, each serving separate quality of service requirements. We present our techniques for instrumenting the agent society, justify the metrics chosen, and describe the tools developed for collecting these metrics. We also present results from distributed agent societies comprising hundreds of agents.