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The Multi Agent Systems (MAS) theory has methodical approaches to analyze, understand and debug the social level of agents. This paper aims to argue that technologies for the analysis of MAS can be used in the field of Multi-agent based simulation (MABS). In particular, forensic analysis is proposed. It is explained the creation of an infrastructure for forensic analysis to assist the analysis of any model independently of its scope and framework of development. To achieve this genericity, the proposal is based in the use of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). In addition, it is given the key ideas used in the implementation of this infrastructure on the MABS platform MASON, giving a great power of analysis to this framework.
This research work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science in the scope of the Research Project “Análisis, Estudio y Desarrollo de Sistemas Inteligentes y Servicios Telemáticos” through the Fundación Séneca within the Program “Generación del Conocimiento Científico de Excelencia”.
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Serrano, E., Botia, J.A., Cadenas, J.M. (2010). Infrastructure for Forensic Analysis of Multi-Agent Based Simulations. In: Braubach, L., Briot, JP., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14843-9_12
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