An Experimental Evaluation of Communication in an Organization-Based Multi-agent System

Author

Bouslimi, Issam ; Hanachi, Chihab ; Ghedira, Khaled

Author_Institution

Strategie d´Optimisation des Informations et de la ConnaissancE (SOIE), Univ. de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Volume

3

fYear

2014

fDate

11-14 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

78

Abstract

This paper proposes an experimental evaluation of the communication in an Organization-based Multi-Agent System. We defined a set of criteria to evaluate the quality of interactions between agents at run time. The originalities and the advantages of our proposal are threefold: (1) the adaptation of a set of criteria and their corresponding metrics to evaluate communication in an Organization-based Multi-agent System, (2) the implementation of a Cooperative Information Gathering System on top of which we have tested our metrics, and (3) the execution of different scenarios at run time to analyze the influence of the organization size on these metrics.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; cooperative information gathering system; experimental communication evaluation; interaction quality evaluation; organization-based multiagent system; Complexity theory; Concrete; Measurement; Organizations; Protocols; Receivers; Syntactics; Cooperative Information Gathering; Organization-based Multi-Agent System; communication; evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.152

Filename

6928170