The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metrics in software developments. However, several research groups of experts in agent-oriented software engineering agree that classical software metrics and object-oriented metrics cannot directly measure the quality of MAS architectures. For this reason, this work proposes a suite of metrics to measure certain quality attributes of MAS architectures, considering agents and their organization. Most of these metrics are inspired by object-oriented metrics but they are adapted to agent-oriented concepts. Proposed metrics are validated by the application to four problem domains and eight architectures.

Garcia-Magarino, I., Cossentino, M., Seidita, V. (2010). A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (pp.912-919) [10.1145/1774088.1774278].

A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures

SEIDITA, Valeria
2010-01-01

Abstract

The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metrics in software developments. However, several research groups of experts in agent-oriented software engineering agree that classical software metrics and object-oriented metrics cannot directly measure the quality of MAS architectures. For this reason, this work proposes a suite of metrics to measure certain quality attributes of MAS architectures, considering agents and their organization. Most of these metrics are inspired by object-oriented metrics but they are adapted to agent-oriented concepts. Proposed metrics are validated by the application to four problem domains and eight architectures.
25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2010
Sierre; Switzerland;
22-26 March 2010
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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1774278
Garcia-Magarino, I., Cossentino, M., Seidita, V. (2010). A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (pp.912-919) [10.1145/1774088.1774278].
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