A tool for monitoring and tracing multi-agent applications

Author

Al Maghayreh, E. ; Doush, I.A. ; Alkhateeb, Faisal ; Aljawarneh, Shadi

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Yarmouk Univ., Irbid, Jordan

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 May 2011

Abstract

In this paper, we have designed and implemented a tool that can be used to effectively collect the trace data of multi-agent applications developed using the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework (JADE). The tool can also be used to monitor JADE applications and to report the occurrence of certain events of interest. The collected trace data can be used later by the developer to verify that the current implementation of the multi-agent application under consideration satisfies certain properties. Moreover, monitoring the application at runtime and reporting the occurrence of certain events can significantly help the developers in testing and debugging multi agent applications.

Keywords

Java; data analysis; multi-agent systems; program debugging; program testing; JADE application monitoring; Java agent development framework; data tracing; debugging; multiagent application; Catalogs; Clocks; Debugging; Distributed computing; Monitoring; Runtime; Testing; Debugging; Monitoring; Multi-agent applications; Testing; Tracing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 24th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9788-1

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2011.6030583

Filename

6030583