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Evaluating Software Agent Quality: Measuring Social Ability and Autonomy

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Research on agent-oriented software has been developed around different practical applications. The same cannot, however, be said about the development of measures to evaluate agent quality by its key characteristics. In some cases, there have been proposals to use and adapt measures from other paradigms, but no agent-related quality model has been investigated. As part of research into agent quality, this paper presents the evaluation of two key characteristics: social ability and autonomy. Additionally, we present some results for a case study on a multi-agent system.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n 28660 – Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Fernando Alonso, José L. Fuertes & Loïc Martínez

  2. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avda. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile

    Héctor Soza

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    Tarek Sobh

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    Khaled Elleithy

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Alonso, F., Fuertes, J.L., Martínez, L., Soza, H. (2010). Evaluating Software Agent Quality: Measuring Social Ability and Autonomy. In: Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. (eds) Innovations in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9112-3_51

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