TY - GEN
T1 - A publish-subscribe based architecture for testing multiagent systems
AU - Do Nascimento, Nathalia Moraes
AU - Viana, Carlos Juliano Moura
AU - Von Staa, Arndt
AU - De Lucena, Carlos José Pereira
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Multiagent systems (MASs) have been applied to several application domains, such as e-commerce, unmanned vehicles, and many others. In addition, a set of different techniques has been integrated into multiagent applications. However, few of these applications have been commercially deployed and few of these techniques have been fully exploited by industrial applications. One reason is the lack of procedures guaranteeing that multiagent systems would behave as desired. Most of the existing test approaches only test agents as single individuals and do not provide ways of inspecting the behavior of an agent as part of a group, and the behavior of the whole group of agents. Accordingly, we modeled and developed a publishsubscribe- based architecture to facilitate the implementation of systems to test MASs at the agent and group levels. To illustrate and evaluate the use of the proposed architecture, we developed an MAS-based application and performed functional and performance ad-hoc tests.
AB - Multiagent systems (MASs) have been applied to several application domains, such as e-commerce, unmanned vehicles, and many others. In addition, a set of different techniques has been integrated into multiagent applications. However, few of these applications have been commercially deployed and few of these techniques have been fully exploited by industrial applications. One reason is the lack of procedures guaranteeing that multiagent systems would behave as desired. Most of the existing test approaches only test agents as single individuals and do not provide ways of inspecting the behavior of an agent as part of a group, and the behavior of the whole group of agents. Accordingly, we modeled and developed a publishsubscribe- based architecture to facilitate the implementation of systems to test MASs at the agent and group levels. To illustrate and evaluate the use of the proposed architecture, we developed an MAS-based application and performed functional and performance ad-hoc tests.
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U2 - 10.18293/SEKE2017-050
DO - 10.18293/SEKE2017-050
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029498879
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
SP - 521
EP - 526
BT - Proceedings - SEKE 2017
PB - Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School
T2 - 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2017
Y2 - 5 July 2017 through 7 July 2017
ER -