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ACORN (Agent-based Community Oriented Retrieval Network) is a multi-agent system which uses agents to provide information across internet/intranet networks. In this report, we adapt the ACORN architecture for its performance evaluation on single and multiple servers, running on single and multiple machines. In order to evaluate the performance of ACORN, we introduce a novel concept of multiple autonomous virtual users. The concept of multiple autonomous virtual users and our testing philosophy is applicable to the performance evaluation of other client/server based multi-agent systems. The modified ACORN architecture has been ported to different machines and experimental results on single processors obtained. The processing time required by ACORN is found to be a nonlinear function of the number of agents.
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Bhavsar, V.C., Ghorbani, A.A., Marsh, S. (2002). A Performance Evaluation of the Acorn Architecture. In: Dimopoulos, N.J., Li, K.F. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 657. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0849-6_2
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