A framework of constraint-based modeling for cooperative decision systems

摘要

Multi-agent technology has emerged as a promising discipline for modeling distributed information system applications. One of such applications is the modeling of cooperative decision systems. The knowledge used in such systems is typically uncertain, heuristic, and temporally changing. In this paper, we propose a framework to model cooperative decision systems. In the framework, a mechanism of situation representation is used to model temporally changing problem-solving states and interactions within the environment. A heuristic constraint satisfaction model is exploited as a means of decision-making with incomplete information. A cooperation protocol based on the situation mechanism and the heuristic constraint model is designed.