Title
Predicting Responsiveness of BDI Agent
Abstract
A performance mark of a BDI agent is how fast it can react to and process incoming event sequences. To the best of our knowledge, few papers have been published about predicting an agent's average response time for an event sequence before the agent is applied in a real project. In this paper, we first introduce a simulation method. In simulation, a sequence of events with attributes, such as priorities and amounts of time needed to process the events, is input to the agent at designed insertion time. The events are processed by the agent according to the attributes. The statistics of processing time can be recorded. Then we make some theoretical analysis to estimate the average response time when an agent processes a sequence of events based on probability and queueing theory. Comparison experiments show that the results from analysis are quite matching with the results from simulation experiments. The analysis suggests a way to quickly estimate the performance of an agent if the attributes of the incoming event sequence are known in advance. The predicted average response time can help construct efficient BDI agents for various environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3233/978-1-60750-606-5-647
ECAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
bdi agent,processing time,insertion time,simulation experiment,predicting responsiveness,process incoming event sequence,efficient bdi agent,simulation method,average response time,event sequence,incoming event sequence
Data mining,Computer science,Response time,Queueing theory,Artificial intelligence,Event sequence,Insertion time,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
215
0922-6389
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huiliang Zhang1426.89
Zhiqi Shen2114882.57
Shell Ying Huang316119.52
Chunyan Miao42307195.72