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Benchmarking Communication in Actor- and Agent-Based Languages

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2013)

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This paper presents the results of communication benchmarks comparing an agent-oriented programming language and two actor-oriented programming languages. It is based on an existing benchmark for programming languages and two variations on that benchmark. We selected Erlang and Akka (using the Scala interface) to represent actor languages, and Jason as the agent language representative. We also present those three scenarios and the respective results in regards to time, core usage, and memory. Even though BDI engines typically used for agent languages provide sophisticated programming abstractions that require significant platform overhead to facilitate the development of complex agents, our initial results show that Jason has reasonable performance for this type of benchmark, where actor-based languages were expected to do significantly better than agent languages.

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  1. FACIN–PUCRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Rafael C. Cardoso & Rafael H. Bordini

  2. DAS–UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Jomi F. Hübner

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  1. ICAR/CNR, Istituto per il CAlcolo Automatico e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni/National Research Council, Viale delle Scienze, ed.11, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Massimo Cossentino

  2. University Pierre and Marie Curie, LIP6, 4,Plce Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 0, France

    Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

  3. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, 9054, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Cardoso, R.C., Hübner, J.F., Bordini, R.H. (2013). Benchmarking Communication in Actor- and Agent-Based Languages. In: Cossentino, M., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Winikoff, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8245. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45343-4_4

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