Collaborative Decision Making framework for multi-agent system

Abstract

Highly complex problems are usually solved by a team of experts and decision making that involves uncertain data is challenging for human decision makers. Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) is an important human activity and it has many practical applications in society, economy, management and engineering, etc. Researchers are faced with new challenges in research on theory and methods of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) with the rapid advent of internet and information technology. Also, the existing groupware do not have tools to effectively analyze and provide support for social facets of group work. One of the challenges in collaborative work is social decision making in a computer mediated environment. Trust is a basic feature of social situations and plays a critical role in problem solving. Social Trust models like Recommender system, Trust management for pervasive computing, are becoming invaluable part of distributed systems. In this paper we have proposed a multi-agent based collaborative decision making framework for distributed environment in which a group of agents collaborate for decision making based on social issues. The proposed framework is capable of making good decision based on social parameters. Geographical Information System (GIS) is a well suited example for Multi Agent System (MAS) and GIS application is considered for our experimental work.