Space-Time Diagram Generation for Profiling Multi Agent Systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces AgentSpotter, a novel profiling tool for Multi Agent Systems that helps developers debug and understand complex agent interactions by adapting traditional profiling techniques to the MAS domain.

Contribution

The paper presents AgentSpotter, a new performance analysis system specifically designed for Multi Agent Systems, integrated into the Agent Factory framework.

Findings

AgentSpotter effectively visualizes MAS performance data.

It aids in debugging and understanding complex agent interactions.

The system is integrated into an existing MAS development framework.

Abstract

Advances in Agent Oriented Software Engineering have focused on the provision of frameworks and toolkits to aid in the creation of Multi Agent Systems (MASs). However, despite the need to address the inherent complexity of such systems, little progress has been made in the development of tools to allow for the debugging and understanding of their inner workings. This paper introduces a novel performance analysis system, named AgentSpotter, which facilitates such analysis. AgentSpotter was developed by mapping conventional profiling concepts to the domain of MASs. We outline its integration into the Agent Factory multi agent framework.