Agents based multi-criteria decision-aid

Amato, A; Martino, B Di; Venticinque, Salvatore

Abstract:

Multi-agents techniques allow for designing distributed applications where different stakeholders collaborate or compete to achieve their own goals. Intelligent agents have to react to their perceptions and take decision according to their knowledge and their preferences. In complex applications agents have to take into account different criteria, whose relevance and priority depend on their preferences and desires. So the problem is how to measure the importance of these criteria and how to combine these values in order to evaluate and choose among the available decisions. In this paper a multi-criteria decision-aid has been used to model a general solution for this kind of problems. Hence the model is specialized in three different application scenarios to implement a multi agents software solution.

Year:

2014

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Multi-agent systems ; Brokering; Multi-criteria decision

Journal:

JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND HUMANIZED COMPUTING

Volume:

5

Pages:

747-758

DOI:

10.1007/s12652-013-0190-y