Complexity measurement of multi-agent systems
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Date
2014
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Springer
Abstract
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a promising software paradigm. Considered
as a natural metaphor to modeling complex systems, MAS are applied
to develop a wide range of applications. However, the developed system’s
complexity is a hard obstacle to understand and maintain them. In this paper,
some metrics are presented to measure the complexity of MAS. The proposition
of these metrics is passed through the proposition of a complexity model for
MAS. To validate our proposal, a tool has been developed to measure the
JADE-based applications complexity. Furthermore, the collected metrics can
also be used as a base to estimate the required effort to maintain JADE-based
applications.
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Multi-agent systems, Complexity, Measurement, JADE