A Structural Evaluation Framework and Results of Multi-Agent System Development Environment
Chen Jia · 2005
Recently many Multi-Agent System Development Environments (MASDEs) have been developed. There- fore, in the literature of AOSE,it has become an open issue to evaluate the various MASDEs in order to help the de- velopers select the proper MASDE from different MASDEs, and promote the standard and integration of MASDEs. In this paper, a structural evaluation framework (SEF) is presented, which have such characteristics as multi-perspec- tive, easy-to-use, extensible and independence of application. Based on SEF, a number of typical MASDEs are select- ed and eveluated, and some important evaluation results are obtained.