PeMMAS: A Tool for Studying the Performance of Multiagent Systems Developed in JADE

Author

Carrasco, Alejandro ; Hernandez, Ma Dolores ; Del Carmen Romero-Ternero, Ma ; Sivianes, Francisco ; Oviedo, David ; Escudero, Jose Ignacio

Author_Institution

Dept. de Tecnol. Electron., Univ. de Sevilla, Seville, Spain

Volume

44

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

41730

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

189

Abstract

This paper describes the performance measurement for multiagent systems (PeMMAS) tool, a system designed to study and measure the performance of any multiagent system (MAS) developed in JADE. The tool itself is another MAS which is deployed and coexists alongside the one being studied. This characteristic allows us to adapt PeMMAS to any scenario in which MAS deployment in JADE is used. PeMMAS extracts information from the target MAS regarding the use of system resources, the flight time for comprehensive messages according to agent type, as well as the processing time for actions. After processing this information, PeMMAS sends a report to the final user for subsequent analysis.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; object-oriented methods; JADE; PeMMAS; action processing time; comprehensive messages; flight time; multiagent systems; performance measurement; system resources; Computer architecture; Containers; Java; Multi-agent systems; Random access memory; Software; Time measurement; Distributed artificial intelligence; multiagent systems (MAS); performance systems; telecontrol;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2168-2291

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/THMS.2014.2302993

Filename

6739072