Bibliography
Tools for Testing, Debugging and Monitoring Multi-agent Applications
Lawrence Cabac
and Till Dörges
.
Tools for testing, debugging and monitoring multi-agent applications.
In Moldt et al. , Proceedings of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'07), pages 209-213.
While multi-agent systems and the underlying agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) approach clearly can be of advantage when designing distributed systems, it is generally a lot harder to control and monitor these kinds of applications due to the distribution of agents. Distributed multi-agent systems usually mean decentralized control and very dynamic operating conditions. This also means that conventional tools naturally fall short when being applied to multi-agent applications or are limited to internal and local introspection.
This paper presents two tools to address the issues encountered when testing, monitoring and debugging multi-agent applications, which are designed for and integrated into the Petri net-based multi-agent system development environment Mulan\,/\,Capa\,/\,Renew. One of the tools, the \emph{Mulan viewer}, deals with the introspection of agents and agent behaviors, while it also offers rudimentary features for controlling the agent-system. The \emph{Mulan sniffer} on the other hand places emphasis on tracing, visualizing and analyzing communication between all parts of the multi-agent application and even offers interfaces for more advanced methods of analysis, such as process mining.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{Cabac+07a,
author = {Cabac, Lawrence and D{\"o}rges, Till},
title = {Tools for Testing, Debugging and Monitoring Multi-agent
Applications},
pages = {209--213},
year = 2007,
crossref = {Moldt+-e-07},
keywords = {inspection, analysis, Renew, plug-ins, multi-agent systems},
abstract = {While multi-agent systems and the underlying
agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) approach
clearly can be of advantage when designing distributed
systems, it is generally a lot harder to control and
monitor these kinds of applications due to the
distribution of agents. Distributed multi-agent systems
usually mean decentralized control and very dynamic
operating conditions. This also means that conventional
tools naturally fall short when being applied to
multi-agent applications or are limited to internal and
local introspection.
\par
This paper presents two tools to address the issues
encountered when testing, monitoring and debugging
multi-agent applications, which are designed for and
integrated into the Petri net-based multi-agent system
development environment Mulan\,/\,Capa\,/\,Renew. One of
the tools, the \emph{Mulan viewer}, deals with the
introspection of agents and agent behaviors, while it
also offers rudimentary features for controlling the
agent-system. The \emph{Mulan sniffer} on the other hand
places emphasis on tracing, visualizing and analyzing
communication between all parts of the multi-agent
application and even offers interfaces for more advanced
methods of analysis, such as process mining.},
}
@Proceedings{Moldt+-e-07,
title = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on {Petri} Nets
and Software Engineering (PNSE'07)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on {Petri} Nets
and Software Engineering (PNSE'07)},
editor = {Moldt, Daniel and Kordon, Fabrice and van Hee, Kees and
Colom, Jos{\'e}-Manuel and Bastide, R{\'e}mi},
month = jun,
year = 2007,
publisher = {Akademia Podlaska},
address = {Siedlce, Poland}
}
