Abstract
A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is understood as a system consisting of interacting autonomous agents. Research on MAS is mainly concerned with functional properties such as coordination, rationality, and knowledge modeling. A very less attention is paid for the research activity on the nonfunctional properties performance, scalability and reliability of the MAS. However, as the MAS technologies have gradually matured to be exploited in building practical distributed applications, the non-functional properties have become increasingly important, and it is now vital to pay attention to the issues of nonfunctional characteristics of agents. We propose to access the performance of agents in MAS and the system is implemented using JADE. The experimental study provides the opportunity for cause and effect relationships. We considered a tiered architecture for the MAS. A tiered design can lessen the overall impact of changes to the application and allows modifying a component without disturbing the next Tier. So with the help of a good deployment plan, we can distribute the layers over multiple physical tiers in distributed computing to implement a better architecture of the system. The case study considered for illustration is Supply-Chain Management and the results obtained are validated with the tool SMTQA.
Highlights
A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is generally understood as a system comprised of interacting autonomous agents
The case study we considered for the implementation of the SupplyChain Management (SCM) consists of five agents namely Manager Agent (MA), Production Agent (PA), Inventory Agent (IA), Supply Agent (SA) and Delivery Agent (DA)
The model is implemented using the software Java Agent Development Framework (JADE), which is a Framework implemented in Java language which can be readily used for the implementation of multi-agent systems through a middleware that obeys with the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) specifications
Summary
A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is generally understood as a system comprised of interacting autonomous agents. MultiAgent System is relatively a new paradigm in the field of computer science. This paradigm proposes solutions to highly distributed problems in self-motivated, open computational domains. Research on multi-agent systems has been mainly focused on functional properties such as coordination, rationality, and knowledge modeling. A very less attention is paid for the research activity on the nonfunctional properties such as performance, scalability and reliability of the MAS. As the MAS technologies have gradually matured in building many practical distributed applications, the research activities towards the non-functional properties of the MAS have become important, and it is vital to pay attention to the issues of nonfunctional characteristics of agents
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