Efficiency of JADE agent platform

Issue title: International Symposium of Parallel and Distributed Computing & International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogenous Networks

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Chmiel, Krzysztof | Gawinecki, Maciej | Kaczmarek, Pawel | Szymczak, Michal | Paprzycki, Marcin^;

Affiliations: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland | Computer Science Institute, SWPS, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract: Agent oriented programming is often claimed to become the next breakthrough in development and implementation of large-scale complex software systems. At the same time it is rather difficult to find successful applications of agent technology, in particular when large-scale systems are considered. The aim of this paper is to investigate if one of the possible limits could be the scalability of existing agent environments. For this purpose we have selected JADE agent platform and investigated its performance in a number of test-scenarios. Results of our experiments are presented and discussed.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 159-172, 2005