Activity #11
Verify the AMAS Adequacy

This activity is the first one of the "Analysis" process which extends from Activity #11 to Activity #13.

In this activity, you must verify that one (may be more) Adaptive Multi-Agent System (AMAS) is needed to realize the system you want to build. Sometimes, this kind of programming is completely useless. For example, having a system which is able to adapt itself is completely useless if the algorithm required to solve the task is already known, if the task is not complex or if the system is closed and nothing unexpected can occur.

In this activity, you must study the adequacy at two levels:

The AMAS adequacy graphical tool helps you to answer to these two points (on line, this tool is downloadable as a zipped .jar file here).

Firstly, you must answer to a certain number of questions regarding the global level and, then, you will be asked to answer to other questions concerning the local level. In the end, the two areas at the bottom of the graphical tool window will show the answers of ADELFE regarding the global level and the local one; by clicking on those areas, you can obtain an interpretation for these results.

All information about this step is stored in the Amas Adequacy Synthesis document.

This activity is then made up of the following steps:

Possibly, you can come back to the Activity #10 while working on this one.