Complexity Measurement of Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract

Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a promising software paradigm. Considered as a natural metaphor to modeling complex systems, MAS are applied to develop a wide range of applications. However, the developed system's complexity is a hard obstacle to understand and maintain them. In this paper, some metrics are presented to measure the complexity of MAS. The proposition of these metrics is passed through the proposition of a complexity model for MAS. To validate our proposal, a tool has been developed to measure the JADE-based applications complexity. Furthermore, the collected metrics can also be used as a base to estimate the required effort to maintain JADE-based applications.