A metrics suite for evaluating agent-oriented architectures
- Authors: Garcia-Magarino, I; Cossentino, M; Seidita, V
- Publication year: 2010
- Type: eedings (Articolo in rivista)
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/76663
Abstract
The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metrics in software developments. However, several research groups of experts in agent-oriented software engineering agree that classical software metrics and object-oriented metrics cannot directly measure the quality of MAS architectures. For this reason, this work proposes a suite of metrics to measure certain quality attributes of MAS architectures, considering agents and their organization. Most of these metrics are inspired by object-oriented metrics but they are adapted to agent-oriented concepts. Proposed metrics are validated by the application to four problem domains and eight architectures.