Distributed decision-making: application to an urban transport network

In the multiagent systems (MAS), the cooperation between agents is a fundamental process allowing the total resolution of a problem whereas each agent has only a local vision of the problem. This paper deals with a multicriterion distributed decision-making in an urban transport network to regulate the connections. The regulator uses different criteria to make the decisions. We have adapted this multicriterion decision approach to the multiagent decision-support system to assist the regulator. We present a decision-making multicriterion approach at the level of the connection nodes (micro-decision). Each connection node is associated to one agent called connection agent. The cooperation between the different connection agents (macro-decision) is necessary in order to find the coherence for the decisions taken at the level of out connection node.