3D MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

Sergio Ilarri, Juan L. Serrano, Eduardo Mena, Raquel Trillo

2007

Abstract

In the last years, multiagent systems have been proposed to solve a wide range of applications in distributed contexts, as they provide many advantages, such as parallelism, robustness, and scalability. A key element for the performance and reliability of the multiagent system is to design carefully the interaction and synchronization among the agents. Particularly, debugging and monitoring multiagent systems is a challenging task due to the number of agents involved and the complex communication patterns that they may exhibit. In this paper, we present a 3D interactive monitoring framework that we have developed to observe how the agents in a multiagent system communicate among themselves and other interesting events. It offers desirable features, such as the possibility of analyzing communications and events in real-time and also off-line, or filtering relevant events using queries. Besides, the framework can be easily customized and extended in order to debug a variety of multiagent systems.

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in Harvard Style

Ilarri S., L. Serrano J., Mena E. and Trillo R. (2007). 3D MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-77-1, pages 439-442. DOI: 10.5220/0001287104390442


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist07,
author={Sergio Ilarri and Juan L. Serrano and Eduardo Mena and Raquel Trillo},
title={3D MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={439-442},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001287104390442},
isbn={978-972-8865-77-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - 3D MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-972-8865-77-1
AU - Ilarri S.
AU - L. Serrano J.
AU - Mena E.
AU - Trillo R.
PY - 2007
SP - 439
EP - 442
DO - 10.5220/0001287104390442