An Analysis Architecture for Communications in Multi-agent Systems

Evaluation tools are significant from the Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) point of view. Defective designs of communications in Multi-agent Systems (MAS) may overload one or several agents, causing a bullying effect on them. Bullying communications have avoidable consequences, as high response times and low quality of service (QoS). Architectures that perform evaluation functionality must include features to measure the bullying activity and QoS, but it is also recommendable that they have reusability and scalability features. Evaluation tools with these features can be applied to a wide range of MAS, while minimizing designer’s effort. This work describes the design of an architecture for communication analysis, and its evolution to a modular version, that can be applied to different types of MAS. Experimentation of both versions shows differences between its executions

Asistente para gestión de organizaciones de agentes software

Los desarrollos de los sistemas multiagente se han centrado en la autonomía de los agentes como entidades individuales y en los mecanismos de comunicación entre ellos. El concepto de organización aplicado a los sistemas multiagente les aporta una nueva dimensión y múltiples ventajas. Por este motivo cada vez son más las plataformas que lo incorporan. El trabajo aquí realizado se enmarca dentro del framework de desarrollo de organizaciones de agentes, ICARO-T. Se ha desarrollado un asistente como un componente funcional del framework para facilitar la construcción de descripciones y estructuras básicas de las organizaciones de agentes. [ABSTRACT] Most of Mulitagent system research effort has focused on individual agent's behaviour and interaction. The organization concept raises multiagent systems to another level. This is the reason why many multiagent platforms are now adopting it. This paper describes the development process of a computational component of the organization-oriented agents platform ICARO-T. The main objective of the component is to make the definition of organizations descriptions and the developing of organization basic structures easier