Metrics for the Rationality of Jadex-Based Applications

Abstract

Rationality is an important characteristic of agents. This characteristic reflects, among others, the reasoning quality of agents. Consequently, it seems important to measure it in order to control the quality of developed agents. In facts, measurement in the multi-agent systems is now an active area. Several metrics are proposed to measure different attributes of multi-agent systems like the autonomy and the reactivity. In this paper, we propose metrics to measure the rationality of JADEX- based applications. Jadex is a well-known platform to develop multi-agent systems. We present also a tool we developed to measure automatically the proposed metrics. The developed tool is based mainly on aspect-oriented programming.