Agent-Based Group Decision Making

The multi-agent system paradigm represents one of the most promising approaches to address decision making problems. We have integrated agents into GDSS for the purpose of automating more tasks for the decision maker, enabling more indirect management, and requiring less direct manipulation of the DSS. Specifically, agents were used to collect information and generate alternatives that would allow the user to focus on solutions that were found to be significant. The decision making process, applied to the boilers defects in an oil plant, relies in MADS on a cycle that includes recognition of the causes of a defect (diagnosis), plan actions to solve the incidences and, execution of the selected actions.