01453nas a2200205   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653002400055653001300079653001900092653001700111100002000128245007100148856009700219300001000316490000600326520090100332022001401233       2013                            d  c03/201310aMulti-Agent Systems10aAnalysis10aCommunications10aArchitecture1 aCelia Gutierrez00aAn Analysis Architecture for Communications in Multi-agent Systems  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2013/03/ijimai20132_19_pdf_25820.pdf  a65-720 v23 aEvaluation tools are significant from the Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) point of view. Defective designs of communications in Multi-agent Systems (MAS) may overload one or several agents, causing a bullying effect on them. Bullying communications have avoidable consequences, as high response times and low quality of service (QoS). Architectures that perform evaluation functionality must include features to measure the bullying activity and QoS, but it is also recommendable that they have reusability and scalability features. Evaluation tools with these features can be applied to a wide range of MAS, while minimizing designer’s effort. This work describes the design of an architecture for communication analysis, and its evolution to a modular version, that can be applied to different types of MAS. Experimentation of both versions shows differences between its executions  a1989-1660