Using Evolving Graphs to Evaluate Structural Openness in Multi-Agent Systems

Sondes Hattab, Faten Ben Hmida, Wided Lejouad Chaari

2017

Abstract

The evaluation of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) issue is invoked in the literature in a twofold manner: from an external point of view through the assessment of design methodologies and development tools and platforms or from an internal point of view by measuring the functional characteristics of MAS applications. The latter kind of evaluation is not sufficiently addressed and is mostly oriented towards structural properties. We believe behavioural characteristics may considerably affect MAS performances and have to be assessed in order to judge correctly the quality of the MAS. Thus, our aim is to propose an approach to evaluate one of the most important behavioural characteristics in MAS: openness. We focus especially on structural openness and we suggest for this purpose a three-step method: observation, modelling and measure. The modelling technique is based on an evolving graph whose properties are used to estimate metrics for the evaluation. Then, our approach is tested and validated on a road traffic application.

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Hattab S., Ben Hmida F. and Lejouad Chaari W. (2017). Using Evolving Graphs to Evaluate Structural Openness in Multi-Agent Systems . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-247-9, pages 591-598. DOI: 10.5220/0006334505910598


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@conference{iceis17,
author={Sondes Hattab and Faten Ben Hmida and Wided Lejouad Chaari},
title={Using Evolving Graphs to Evaluate Structural Openness in Multi-Agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={591-598},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006334505910598},
isbn={978-989-758-247-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Using Evolving Graphs to Evaluate Structural Openness in Multi-Agent Systems
SN - 978-989-758-247-9
AU - Hattab S.
AU - Ben Hmida F.
AU - Lejouad Chaari W.
PY - 2017
SP - 591
EP - 598
DO - 10.5220/0006334505910598