Testing software agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) needs suitable techniques to
evaluate agent's autonomous behaviours as well as distribution, social and deliberative …

Abstract A Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation (PASSI) is a step-
by-step requirement-to-code methodology for designing and develo** multi-agent …

Agent systems are distributed systems consist of agents that autonomously interact to each
other in an environment to perform tasks and achieve goals. Performing verification is …

In this paper, we present a unit testing approach for MASs based on the use of Mock Agents.
Each Mock Agent is responsible for testing a single role of an agent under successful and …

Software testing remains the most widely used approach to verification in industry today,
consuming between 30-50 percent of the entire development cost. Test input selection for …

We have been develo** robotic multi-agent systems for several years according to a well
defined methodology (PASSI) obtaining good results, but day by day needs of a more …

For many years, the progress in agent-oriented development has focused on tools and
methods for particular development phases. This has not been enough for the industry to …

In open societies of agents, where agents are autonomous and heterogeneous, it is not
realistic to assume that agents will always act so as to comply with interaction protocols …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) based computing is the most appropriate paradigm for the
problem domain, where data, control, expertise or resources are distributed and also it is …

Complex and distributed nature of multi-agent systems (MASs) makes it almost impossible to
identify of all requirements at the beginning of the development. Hence, development of …