Visualising and debugging distributed multi-agent systems

Ndumu, Divine T.; Nwana, Hyacinth S.; Lee, Lyndon C.; Collis, Jaron C.

doi:10.1145/301136.301220

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“…A difference is that our approach automates reasoning further by leveraging agent concepts of agent-based systems. Furthermore, various papers, such as [10], describe tools for the visualization of agent-based system behavior based on the presumption that visualization is essential to facilitate efficient debugging of agentbased systems. This approach is also adopted in this paper to aid rapid comprehension of agent behavior in the implemented system.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated analysis and verification of agent behavior

Bosse

Lam

Barber

2006

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

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Comprehending and analyzing agent behavior is an arduous task due to complexities in agent systems and sophistication of agent behaviors, in addition to the common difficulties with any complex software system. This paper presents an integrated approach for the analysis and verification of behaviors of agentbased systems. The approach is a result of collaboration between the Tracer Tool and the TTL Checker, which together automate the analysis and verification of agents in an implemented agent system with the aim of aiding the user in redesigning, debugging, and maintaining the software system. The Tracer Tool ensures that the user's comprehension of the system behavior is accurate and provides explanations of anomalous behavior, which can be detected as a failed behavioral property by the TTL Checker. The integrated approach has been applied successfully in a case study in the domain of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated analysis and verification of agent behavior

Bosse

Lam

Barber

2006

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

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“…In [16], the authors describe an advanced visualisation tools suite for MAS developed with ZEUS, although the authors also claim these tools could be used with other platforms (more precisely, with CommonKADS). The developed suite allows for inspecting message interchange among agents in a society, displaying graphically the different tasks in the society and its execution state, examining and modifying the internal state of any of the agents in the system and comparing statistics not only for individual agents, but also for agent societies.…”

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Supporting social knowledge in multiagent systems through event tracing

Rapa¹,

Terrasa²,

Fornes³

et al. 2009

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Abstract-Social knowledge is one of the key aspects of MAS in order to face complex problems in dynamical environments. However, it is usually incorporated without specific support on behalf of the platform and that does not let agents take all of the advantage of this social knowledge. At present time, the authors of this paper are working in a general tracing system, which could be used by agents in the system to trace other agents' activity and that could be used as an alternative way for agents to perceive their environment. This paper presents first results of this work, consisting of the requirements which should be taken into account when designing such a tracing system.

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“…As discussed by Serrano et al (2012) [5], several approaches have been proposed to test multiagent systems at the unit and single agent levels [6] [7] [8] [9] [10], while there are few studies that address the issue of testing a MAS at group level [6] [11] [5] [12]. In addition, to perform group tests, most approaches have focused on capturing and visualizing messages exchanged among agents.…”

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A Publish-Subscribe based Architecture for Testing Multiagent Systems

Nascimento

Viana²,

Staa

et al. 2017

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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-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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Visualising and debugging distributed multi-agent systems

Cited by 48 publications

References 12 publications

Automated analysis and verification of agent behavior

Automated analysis and verification of agent behavior

Supporting social knowledge in multiagent systems through event tracing

A Publish-Subscribe based Architecture for Testing Multiagent Systems

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