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Requirements and Tools for the Debugging of Multi-Agent Systems

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.

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.

BibTeX

@InProceedings{Cabac+09e,
  author =   {Cabac, Lawrence and D{\"o}rges, Till and Duvigneau, Michael
                  and Moldt, Daniel},
  authorplain =  {Cabac, Lawrence and Doerges, Till and Duvigneau, Michael
                  and Moldt, Daniel},
  title =    {Requirements and Tools for the Debugging of Multi-Agent Systems},
  editor =  {Braubach, Lars and van der Hoek, Wiebke and Petta, Paolo
                  and Pokahr, Alexander},
  booktitle =   {Multiagent System Technologies.
    7th German Conference, MATES 2009,
    Hamburg, Germany, September 9-11, 2009.
    Proceedings},
  pages =  {238--247},
  year =  2009,
  volume =  5774,
  series =  LNAI,
  address =  Springer.addr,
  month =  sep,
  publisher =  Springer,
  ISBN =   {978-3-642-04142-6},
  annote =       {filename=MATES09_debugging/debugging.tex},
  abstract =   {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.}
}