Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems

Cover Page
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Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Authors......Page 14
1.2 WHY AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS?......Page 15
1.3 BASIC DEFINITIONS......Page 17
1.4 AGENT PROPERTIES......Page 19
1.5 CLASSIFICATIONS OF AGENTS......Page 20
1.6.1 DELIBERATIVE AGENTS......Page 24
1.6.2 REACTIVE AGENTS......Page 27
1.6.3 HYBRID APPROACHES......Page 28
1.7 MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS......Page 29
1.8 AGENT INTERACTION......Page 31
1.8.1.1 Blackboard Technique for Communication......Page 32
1.8.1.2 Messages and Conversations for Communication......Page 33
1.8.1.3 Agent Communication Languages......Page 34
1.8.2 AGENT COOPERATION......Page 39
1.8.2.2 Coordination......Page 41
1.8.3 AGENT MOBILITY......Page 42
REFERENCES......Page 44
2.1 QUALITY ASSURANCE BASICS......Page 50
2.1.1 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF SOFTWARE SYSTEMS......Page 52
2.1.2 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT......Page 54
2.1.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES......Page 58
2.2 QUALITY MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION......Page 60
2.2.1 BASICS IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT......Page 61
2.2.2 MEASUREMENT METHODS AND PROCESSES......Page 63
2.3 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS......Page 66
2.3.1 GENERAL QUALITY ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE AGENTS......Page 67
2.3.2 GENERAL QUALITY ASPECTS OF MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (MASS)......Page 69
2.3.3 GENERAL QUALITY ASPECTS OF MAS DEVELOPMENT......Page 72
REFERENCES......Page 75
3.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 78
3.2.1 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT BY SYCARA......Page 79
3.2.5 MONITORING AND RECORDING AGENT PERFORMANCE BY TAMBE......Page 80
3.2.7 PROBLEM-SOLVING PERFORMANCE BY JOSHI......Page 81
3.2.8 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MOBILE AGENTS BY KOTZ ET AL.......Page 82
3.2.9 PERFORMANCE MEASURING IN LARGE NETWORKS BY WIJATA......Page 84
3.2.12 INFLUENCES OF THE KNOWLEDGE GRANULARITY ON THE AGENT PERFORMANCE BY YE AND TSOTSOS......Page 85
3.2.14 USABILITY LEVEL DETERMINATION BY DEVELIN AND SCOTT......Page 86
3.2.15 USABILITY MEASURES BY CABALLERO ET AL.......Page 87
3.2.17 EVALUATION FUNCTION BY RUSSEL AND NORVIG......Page 88
3.2.20 FITNESS EVALUATION BY LIU......Page 89
3.2.22 SERVICE-LEVEL MEASUREMENT BY BISSEL ET AL.......Page 91
3.2.25 DISTRIBUTED DECISION MEASUREMENT COORDINATION BARBER......Page 92
3.2.27 COMMUNICATION INDEX BY PEDRYCZ AND VOKOVICH......Page 93
3.2.28 INTELLIGENCE FACTORS BY HASEBROOK ET AL.......Page 94
3.2.30 PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION AND MEASUREMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL AGENTS BY NERUDA AND KRUSINA......Page 95
3.2.32 AGENT-BASED METRIC FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS BY CHEN AND CHEN......Page 97
3.2.34 COMMUNICATION LEARNING FOR AGENT COMMUNICATION BY FISCHER ET AL.......Page 98
3.2.36 EFFICIENCY OF CHOSEN MEASUREMENT AGLET AGENTS BY WILLE......Page 99
3.2.37 WORKBENCH FOR AGENT RESOURCE USAGE ANALYSIS BY WILLE......Page 101
3.3 DISCUSSION......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
4.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 106
4.2.2 COMMUNICATION QUALITY EVALUATION BY LUKSCHANDL......Page 107
4.2.3 RISK EVALUATION BY COLLINS ET AL.......Page 108
4.2.5 LOAD MANAGEMENT BY GUSTAVSSON......Page 109
4.2.7 COORDINATION EVALUATION BY TOLKSDORF......Page 110
4.2.8 THE SIMPLE THREAD LANGUAGE (STL)-BASED SIMULATION BY SCHUMACHER......Page 111
4.2.10 ANALYSIS OF AGENT POPULATIONS BY LIU......Page 112
4.2.11 BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS (B2B) MODEL PERFORMANCE BY OUKSEL ET AL.......Page 113
4.2.12 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF LARGE DISTRIBUTED MAS BY HELSINGER......Page 114
4.2.14 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN TELEMATICS BY GERBER......Page 115
4.2.16 ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT BY PATEL ET AL.......Page 116
4.2.17 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT APPROACH BY STOJANOV ET AL.......Page 117
4.2.19 SCALABILITY OF AN MAS BY RANA AND STOUT......Page 118
4.2.20 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT BY CORTESE ET AL.......Page 120
4.2.22 BENCHMARK-BASED MAS EVALUATION BY ZHANG ET AL.......Page 121
4.3 DISCUSSION......Page 122
REFERENCES......Page 124
5.2.1 ASPECT-ORIENTED VERSUS PATTERN-ORIENTED MAS DEVELOPMENT BY GARCIA ET AL.......Page 126
5.2.2 EVALUATION OF MAS BASED ON THE ROADMAP META-MODEL BY JUAN AND STERLING......Page 129
5.2.3 AGENT FRAMEWORK EVALUATION BY TAMBE, PYNADATH, AND CHAUVAT......Page 130
5.2.4 UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML) AND MEASUREMENT INTENTIONS BY BERTOLINO, DIMITROV, DUMKE, AND LINDEMANN......Page 132
5.2.5 AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE EVALUATION, SINGH......Page 134
5.2.6 MULTIAGENT SYSTEM (MAS) DEVELOPMENT APPROACH EVALUATION BY LIND......Page 135
5.2.7 DEVELOPMENT OF AGENT-BASED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUIS) BY KERNCHEN......Page 136
5.2.8 MAS PARADIGM EVALUATION BY WONG, PACIOREK, AND MOORE......Page 137
5.2.9 MAS QUALITY MEASUREMENT BY FAR......Page 138
5.3.2 MEASUREMENT STUDY OF THE JADE PLATFORM BY PICCOLO ET AL.......Page 139
5.3.3 PERFORMANCE OF OPEN-SOURCE MULTIAGENT PLATFORMS BY MULET ET AL.......Page 140
5.3.4 EVALUATION OF JAVA-BASED AGENT TECHNOLOGIES BY KERNCHEN ET AL.......Page 141
5.3.5 MEASUREMENT OF AGENT ACADEMY BY WILLE......Page 142
5.3.6 PERFORMANCE OF AGENT LOCATION MECHANISMS BY BEN-AMI AND SHEHORY......Page 143
5.3.7 PERFORMANCE OF MULTIAGENT LEARNING ALGORITHMS BY PANAIT AND LUKE......Page 144
5.3.9 MEASURING RESOURCE USAGE FOR SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS BY HE......Page 145
5.3.10 MEASUREMENT OF DAML+OIL ONTOLOGIES BY WILLE......Page 146
5.4 DISCUSSION......Page 148
REFERENCES......Page 150
6.1.1.2 Measurement Situation of Agent Description Level......Page 152
6.1.2.1 Measurement Situation of Multiagent System (MAS) Design Level......Page 153
6.1.3.1 Measurement Situation of Agent Development Life Cycle Level......Page 154
6.1.3.6 Measurement Situation of MAS Development Management Level......Page 155
6.1.3.10 Measurement Situation of MAS Developer Level......Page 156
6.2 OPEN QUESTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS......Page 157
REFERENCES......Page 161