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A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures

Massimo CossentinoIván García-magariñoValeria Seidita

subject

Software visualizationSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSocial software engineeringSoftware Engineering Process GroupResource-oriented architectureComputer sciencebusiness.industrySoftware developmentSoftware peer reviewAgent-oriented software engineeringSoftware qualitySoftware metricSoftwareSoftware sizingSoftware deploymentSoftware constructionComponent-based software engineeringmetric agentSoftware requirementsSoftware systemSoftware verification and validationbusinessSoftware engineeringHalstead complexity measures

description

The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metrics in software developments. However, several research groups of experts in agent-oriented software engineering agree that classical software metrics and object-oriented metrics cannot directly measure the quality of MAS architectures. For this reason, this work proposes a suite of metrics to measure certain quality attributes of MAS architectures, considering agents and their organization. Most of these metrics are inspired by object-oriented metrics but they are adapted to agent-oriented concepts. Proposed metrics are validated by the application to four problem domains and eight architectures.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-03-22
10.1145/1774088.1774278http://hdl.handle.net/10447/76663