A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 912-919

  García Magariño, Iván ^a   Cossentino, Massimo ^b   Seidita, Valeria ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

agent oriented software engineering; architectures; metrics; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT-ORIENTED; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MAS ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954733169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774278     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. G. Booch. The defenestration of superfluous architectural accoutrements. IEEE Software, 26(4):7-8, 2009.
2. M. Cossentino. From Requirements to Code with PASSI methodology. Agent-oriented Methodologies, Chapter IV, B. Henderson-Sellers and P. Giorgini (editors), pages 79-106, 2005.
3. M. Cossentino, S. Gaglio, L. Sabatucci, and V. Seidita. The PASSI and Agile PASSI MAS Meta-models Compared with a Unifying Proposal. Multi-agent Systems And Applications IV: 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2005, Budapest, Hungary, September 15-17, 2005: Proceedings, LNCS 3690:183, 2005.
4. S. Franklin and A. Graesser. Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1193:21-36, 1997.
5. A. Garcia, C. Sant Anna, C. Chavez, V. da Silva, C. de Lucena, and A. von Staa. Separation of concerns in multi-agent systems: An empirical study. Lecture notes in computer science, 2940/2004:343-344, 2004.
6. I. García-Magariño, C. Gutierrez, and R. Fuentes-Fernández. The INGENIAS Development Kit: a practical application for crisis-management. In The 10th International Work conference on Artificial Neuronal Networks (IWANN2009), volume 5517 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 537-544. Springer, 2009.
7. M. Genero, M. Piattini, and C. Calero. A survey of metrics for uml class diagrams. Journal of Object Technology, 4(9):59-92, 2005.
8. Grasia web: http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es (in "Software"→ "Additional Material for Papers" or "Trainning"→ "Full Development Examples").
9. A. Helsinger, R. Lazarus, W. Wright, and J. Zinky. Tools and techniques for performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, pages 843-850. ACM New York, NY, USA, 2003.
10. S. Henry, D. Kafura, and K. Harris. On the relationships among three software metrics. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 10(1):81-88, 1981.
11. R. Kazman, L. Bass, and M. Klein. The essential components of software architecture design and analysis. The Journal of Systems & Software, 79(8):1207-1216, 2006.
12. R. Kazman, L. Bass, M. Klein, T. Lattanze, and L. Northrop. A basis for analyzing software architecture analysis methods. Software Quality Journal, 13(4):329-355, 2005.
13. T. McCabe. A complexity measure. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2(4):308-320, 1976.
14. J. McCall, P. Richards, and G. Walters. Factors in Software Quality (Vol. 1,2 and 3). Technical report, Nat'l Tech. Information Service, Spring eld, Va. NTIS AD-AO49-014, 015, 055, Nov. 1977.
15. J. Pavón and J. Gómez-Sanz. Agent Oriented Software Engineering with INGENIAS. Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III, 2691:394-403, 2003.
16. O. Rana and K. Stout. What is scalability in multi-agent systems? In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents, pages 56-63. ACM New York, NY, USA, 2000.
17. C. Sant Anna, C. Lobato, U. Kulesza, A. Garcia, C. Chavez, and C. de Lucena. On the modularity assessment of aspect-oriented multiagent architectures: a quantitive study. Int. J. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 2(1):34-61, 2008.
18. M. Schroeder. Using singular value decomposition to visualise relations within multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 313-318. ACM New York, NY, USA, 1999.