Paper Info
Title
A network inference tool for JADE-based systems
Abstract
This article describes the first version of a tool designed to infer the network characteristics of JADE-based multiagent systems. The rationale behind the tool is that systems in general and multiagent system in particular, often have some hidden dynamics that contribute to the emergence of desired and undesired characteristics. Traditional sniffing tools simply display the message exchange. The presented tool goes therefore beyond simple message sniffing and infers the agents' network based on the ongoing interactions and codifies it a format suitable for further processing in specialized network analysis tools. In particular the prosped tool identifies the most frequently used communication links and the messages associated with them. To demonstrate the behavior of the tool an exploratory system based on the Evolvable Production System paradigm is discussed and analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/INDIN.2014.6945546
Industrial Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
electronic data interchange,manufacturing systems,multi-agent systems,production engineering computing,JADE-based multiagent systems,agents network,communication links,evolvable production system paradigm,message exchange,message sniffing,network analysis tools,network characteristics,network inference tool,sniffing tools,agents,analysis tool,evolvable production systems,self-organization
System of systems engineering,Systems engineering,Inference,Self-organization,Multi-agent system,Real-time computing,Engineering,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1935-4576
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Ribeiro119525.77
João Ferreira2112.05
Catarina Moura300.34
José Barata429844.95