A Publish-Subscribe based Architecture for Testing Multiagent Systems

Nascimento, Nathalia; Viana, Carlos Juliano M.; Staa, Arndt von; Lucena, Carlos José Pereira de

doi:10.18293/seke2017-050

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“…Several approaches have proposed unit testing for individual agents in multiagent systems [6] [3]. According to Serrano [18], most approaches have focused on capturing and visualizing messages exchanged among agents, and do not provide ways of tracking the correlation among the agents' behavior.…”

Section: B Multiagent Systems Testingmentioning

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Understanding Normative BDI Agents Behavior

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Viana

Sirqueira

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International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Testing the autonomy of, and the interaction between, the agents in Multiagent Systems (MAS) is the frontal challenge of traditional software testing approaches. When we study MAS governed by norms-mechanisms created to restrain the behavior of agents-this challenge increases even further. However, agents are autonomous and it is not guaranteed that they will fulfill all norms. Given the fuzzy notion of "test", especially in the context of MAS, in addition to the difficulties of dealing adequately with normative constraints, the overall understanding of how to handle the creation of tests for normative MAS is still vague. This paper proposes a testing tool to build and run MAS test scenarios and it relies on the use of aspect-oriented techniques to monitor the behavior of autonomous agents. We demonstrated our tool with a simulation of a traffic intersection scenario, based on the Brazilian Transit Code. Our experience shows that the tool can be used to build test scenarios that can achieve high fault detection effectiveness.

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Section: B Multiagent Systems Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Normative BDI Agents Behavior

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Viana

Sirqueira

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International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Therefore, we executed the simulated street lights using the evolved network in order to generate logs and extract the rules that are implicit in patterns of the generated inputoutput mapping. To generate these logs, we used the runtime monitoring platform proposed by Nascimento et al [33] to test distributed systems. After analyzing logs, we could realize the rules that were created by the evolved neural network in order to understand why street lights decided to communicate and switch the lights ON.…”

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Engineering cooperative smart things based on embodied cognition

Nascimento

Lucena

2017

2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)

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Abstract-The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to transform any thing around us, such as a trash can or a street light, into a smart thing. A smart thing has the ability of sensing, processing, communicating and/or actuating. In order to achieve the goal of a smart IoT application, such as minimizing waste transportation costs or reducing energy consumption, the smart things in the application scenario must cooperate with each other without a centralized control. Inspired by known approaches to design swarm of cooperative and autonomous robots, we modeled our smart things based on the embodied cognition concept. Each smart thing is a physical agent with a body composed of a microcontroller, sensors and actuators, and a brain that is represented by an artificial neural network. This type of agent is commonly called an embodied agent. The behavior of these embodied agents is autonomously configured through an evolutionary algorithm that is triggered according to the application performance. To illustrate, we have designed three homogeneous prototypes for smart street lights based on an evolved network. This application has shown that the proposed approach results in a feasible way of modeling decentralized smart things with self-developed and cooperative capabilities.

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“…The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. In [7], we present a preliminary version of a publishsubscribe-based architecture that was implemented 1 to make feasible the development of multi-level tests based on logging for multiagent systems. By using this platform, it is possible to test the behavior of individual agents and the behavior of group of agents.…”

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