Lawrence Cabac
, Till Dörges
, Michael Duvigneau, and Daniel Moldt.
Requirements and tools for the debugging of multi-agent systems.
In Lars Braubach, Wiebke van der Hoek, Paolo Petta, and Alexander
Pokahr, editors, Multiagent System Technologies. 7th German Conference,
MATES 2009, Hamburg, Germany, September 9-11, 2009. Proceedings, volume 5774
of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 238-247, Berlin,
Heidelberg, New York, September 2009. Springer-Verlag.
Abrégé: Debugging of multi-agent systems (MAS) is hard due to their distributed, concurrent, adaptive, highly interactive, flexible, mobile and heterogeneous nature. We contribute an abstract analysis of the concepts and requirements for debugging a that avail of the strong structure imposed on the artifacts that constitute a MAS. We identify three dimensions (activities, scale, and coupling) that span the area of debugging and derive general requirements for a debugging toolset in the multi-agent context. An implementation w.r.t. the requirements given for the MAS reference architecture Mulan is shown.
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