Authors:
Sondes Hattab
;
Faten Ben Hmida
and
Wided Lejouad Chaari
Affiliation:
COSMOS Laboratory and Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique, Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Evaluation, Evolving graph, Multi-Agent Systems, Modelling, Measure, Openness, Observation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
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 valida
ted on a road traffic application.
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