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This chapter introduces benchmarking as a special form of evaluation and addresses problems and demands concerning the benchmarking of multiagent systems. It gives an overview of the evaluation concepts used in the German research program SPP 1083 for intelligent agents and realistic commercial application scenarios as well as examples for evaluation and benchmark studies for multiagent systems. The article provides basics for setting-up evaluation studies, regarding special concerns for the evaluation of multiagent systems. Moreover, the exemplary overview may serve as orientation for further evaluation and benchmarking of multiagent systems in realistic and commercial application scenarios.
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Zöller, A., Rothlauf, F., Paulussen, T.O., Heinzl, A. (2006). Benchmarking of Multiagent Systems. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_26
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