Testing is a key software lifecycle activity to assure software quality. Although it is of recognized importance, the work on agent testing has been scarce and has been usually tied to a MAS design methodology. This article presents a methodology agnostic testing procedure along with the description of a testing toolkit for MAS, with a practical application to a real, in production MAS. We also...

Based on common functionality existing among different multi-agent systems (MAS) such as reactivity, deliberation and communication, several tools have been built to develop MAS. Despite these efforts, most of them are targeted to specific application domains or specific types of agents, limiting thus their applicability. This paper describes an approach to develop MAS that aims at providing fl...

Midaortic syndrome (MAS) is a rare vascular disease that commonly causes renovascular hypertension. The lumen of the abdominal aorta narrows and the ostia of the branches show stenosis. MAS is associated with diminished pulses in the lower extremities compared with the upper extremities, severe hypertension with higher blood pressure in the upper rather than lower extremities, and an abdominal ...

Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing real-world applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamism. Several industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MAS offers advantages in many different areas such as manufacturing processes, e-Commerce, network management, etc. As MASs in such contexts need to be tested before their deployment a...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) emerged as a promising approach for developing complex and distributed systems. However, tools that support development of MASs are essential for this approach is effectively exploited in industrial context. Therefore, there is a need for tools for the modeling of MAS, because create and manipulate models without support of an appropriate environment are tedious and er...

The purpose of this study was to compare hamstring musculo-articular stiffness (MAS) and lower extremity (LE) body composition in the dominant (D) and non-dominant (ND) legs of men and women, and then to examine relationships between MAS and LE body composition while controlling for sex. No differences in MAS or LE body composition were found between D and ND legs in either sex. Males demonstra...

A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. MAS can be used to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent to solve. The different characteristics of MAS help in solving highly complex distributed problems. One of the important characteristics of MAS is its cooperative nature. This character helps different agents to in...

A family of C29 4,4-dimethylsterol intermediates in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway from lanosterol has been found to induce oocytes to resume meiosis.[248] One of these sterols, 4,4-dimethyl-5α-cholest-8,14,24-triene-3β-ol, was extracted from human follicular fluid and named follicular fluid meiosis–activating substance (FF-MAS). A related compound, 4,4-dimethyl-5α-cholest-8,24-diene-3β-o...