MATE: The Multi-Agent Test Environment Functional Description

摘要

In this report we present the Multi-Agent Test Environment, MATE. MATE is a collection of experiment management tools for assisting in the design, testing, and evaluation of distributed problem-solvers. It provides the experimenter with an automated tool for executing and monitoring experiments choosing among rule bases, number of agents, communication strategies, and inference engines. Using MATE the experimenter can run a series of distributed problem-solving experiments without human intervention. This report is similar in content to the previous NASA Technical Report FIA-92-25 but contains an appendix detailing a number of MATE functions.