Publication - Visualization and Debugging Tools

Authors: Egyed, Alexander; Horling, Bryan; Becker, Raphen; and Balzer, Robert
Title: Visualization and Debugging Tools
Abstract: The ANTs environment consists of numerous distributed software agents and hardware components. System development in such an environment requires a means of observing and validating the potentially hidden activities of these components. Existing visualization and debugging tools provide some mechanisms for observing behaviors and detecting faults in individual components, but the fast-paced nature of ANTs agents makes these conventional user interfaces (visualizations) and debugging techniques less effective. This chapter will discuss several techniques for visualizing and debugging complex, real-time, agent-based systems. These techniques vary in their level of invasiveness and general applicability.
Keywords: ANTs
Publication: Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, pp. 33 - 41
Editor: Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: 2003
Sources: PS: /Documents/bhorling/ANTS-Book-Visualization-2003.ps.gz
PDF: /Documents/ANTS-Book-Visualization-2003.pdf
Notes: Book chapter.
Reference: Egyed, Alexander; Horling, Bryan; Becker, Raphen; and Balzer, Robert. Visualization and Debugging Tools. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 33-41. 2003. Book chapter.
bibtex: 
@incollection{Egyed-240,
  author    = "Alexander Egyed and Bryan Horling and Raphen
               Becker and Robert Balzer",
  title     = "{Visualization and Debugging Tools}",
  booktitle = "Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent
               perspective",
  editor    = "Victor Lesser and Charles Ortiz and Milind Tambe",
  publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
  pages     = "33-41",
  year      = "2003",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/240",
}