Scalability in distributed multi-agent based simulations: the JADE case

Dawit Mengistu; Peter Tröger; Lars Lundberg; Paul Davidsson

doi:10.1109/FGCNS.2008.158

Scalability in distributed multi-agent based simulations: the JADE case

Dawit Mengistu, Peter Tröger, Lars Lundberg, Paul Davidsson

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Abstract

Agent platforms provide a framework for development and execution of parallel applications such as multi-agent based simulation (AMBS). However, these platforms have limitations to support large-scale MABS applications in practice. This paper aims at investigating and improving the performance of an agent platform with a AMBS workload in distributed environments. We carried out an experimental study with the JADE framework as our agent platform. The experiments show the performance characteristics of the workload and that JADE does not scale well due to message transport and agent directory service limitations. We propose solutions to overcome these performance bottlenecks and facilitate the efficient execution of AMBS in a distributed environment. Initial experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approaches.

Original language	English
Pages	596-602
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FGCNS.2008.158
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia - Duration: 1980-Jan-01 → …

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Conference	International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia
Period	80-01-01 → …

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20 Citations
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Improving the performance of distributed multi-agent based simulation
Mengistu, D., 2011, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
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