Driven by the urging need to thoroughly identify and accentuate the merits of agent technology, we present in this paper MEANDER, an integrated framework for evaluating the performance of agent-based systems. The proposed framework is based on the Agent Performance Evaluation (APE) methodology, which provides guidelines and representation tools for performance metrics, measurement collection an...

Although they flow from a common source, the uses of multi-agent systems (or “agent-based computational systems” — ACE) vary between the social sciences and computer science. The distinction can be broadly summarised as analysis versus synthesis, or explanation versus design. I compare and contrast these uses, and discuss sufficiency and necessity in simulations in general and in multi-agent sy...

Integration of advice is intended to acquire knowledge from an agent with more comprehensive information. This paper describes Arian, a general architecture for advice integration. Advice is injected into the system using the advice model which is a case in a CBR system. The architecture comprises an advice adapter to model incomming advice as cases of a CBR system. The Arian architecture is a ...

A search on Google for the keywords “intelligent agents’ will return more than 330,000 hits; “multi-agent” returns almost double that amount as well as over 5,000 citations on www.citeseer.com. What is agent technology and what has led to its enormous popularity in both the academic and commercial worlds? Agent-based system technology offers a new paradigm for designing and implementing softwar...

Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is a suitable way to simulate the dynamics of natural or social systems. However, observing and analysing large-scale simulations involving numerous, complex and heterogeneous agents is still a challenge. Understanding simulation results requires the user to perform the following visual information-seeking tasks: (i) overview, (ii) zoomand-filter, (iii) detai...

A Grid information system should rely upon two basic features: the replication and dissemination of information about Grid resources, and an intelligent logical distribution of such information among Grid hosts. This paper examines an approach based on multi agent systems to build an information systems in which metadata related to Grid resources is disseminated and logically organized accordin...