@incollection{DoanVanBien2009, title = {Space-{{Time Diagram Generation}} for {{Profiling Multi Agent Systems}}}, booktitle = {Programming Multi-Agent Systems}, author = {Doan Van Bien, Dinh and Lillis, David and Collier, Rem W.}, editor = {Braubach, Lars and Briot, Jean-Pierre and Thangarajah, John}, year = {2009}, month = {May}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {5919}, pages = {170--184}, publisher = {{Springer Berlin Heidelberg}}, address = {{Budapest, Hungary}}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-14843-9_11}, abstract = {Advances in Agent Oriented Software Engineering have fo- cused on the provision of frameworks and toolkits to aid in the creation of Multi Agent Systems (MAS). However, despite the inherent complexity of such systems, little progress has been made in the development of tools to allow for the debugging and understanding of their inner workings. This paper introduces a novel performance analysis system, named AgentSpotter, facilitates such analysis. AgentSpotter was developed by mapping conventional profiling concepts to the domain of MASs. We outline its integration in to the Agent Factory multi agent toolkit.}, isbn = {978-3-642-14842-2}, }