Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems
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Software Engineering Institute
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CMU/SEI-99-TR-025Topic or Tag
Abstract
The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) is an architecture evaluation technique currently evolving at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). ATAM has been applied to a number of command and control, real-time, and information systems. As collaborative, autonomous agents become a significant software technology, the demand for evaluating the quality attributes of the architectures of agent-based systems will increase. Very broadly, agents may be thought of as software entities that have the ability to undertake action autonomously in their particular embedded environment, according to a typically general set of requests or desired goals, and that are able to communicate with other agents as determined by their own initiative. Given an agent-system architecture, we need scenarios that could be applicable for conducting ATAM evaluations on instances of that agent architecture. This report identifies a few features in agent-based systems that could be used to classify agent-system architectures and to guide the generation of scenarios applicable to these architectures.
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Woods, S., & Barbacci, M. (1999, October 1). Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-99-TR-025). Retrieved October 7, 2024, from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/architectural-evaluation-of-collaborative-agent-based-systems/.
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year={1999},
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Woods, Steve, and Mario Barbacci. "Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems." (CMU/SEI-99-TR-025). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, October 1, 1999. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/architectural-evaluation-of-collaborative-agent-based-systems/.
S. Woods, and M. Barbacci, "Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-99-TR-025, 1-Oct-1999 [Online]. Available: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/architectural-evaluation-of-collaborative-agent-based-systems/. [Accessed: 7-Oct-2024].
Woods, Steve, and Mario Barbacci. "Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-99-TR-025). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Oct. 1999. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/architectural-evaluation-of-collaborative-agent-based-systems/. Accessed 7 Oct. 2024.
Woods, Steve; & Barbacci, Mario. Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems. CMU/SEI-99-TR-025. Software Engineering Institute. 1999. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/architectural-evaluation-of-collaborative-agent-based-systems/