An Experimental Evaluation of Communication in an Organization-Based Multi-agent System

This paper proposes an experimental evaluation of the communication in an Organization-based Multi-Agent System. We defined a set of criteria to evaluate the quality of interactions between agents at run time. The originalities and the advantages of our proposal are threefold: (1) the adaptation of a set of criteria and their corresponding metrics to evaluate communication in an Organization-based Multi-agent System, (2) the implementation of a Cooperative Information Gathering System on top of which we have tested our metrics, and (3) the execution of different scenarios at run time to analyze the influence of the organization size on these metrics.