TY - GEN
T1 - COMAS
T2 - A multi-agent system for performing consensus processes
AU - Palomares, Iván
AU - Sánchez, Pedro J.
AU - Quesada, Francisco J.
AU - Mata, Francisco
AU - Martínez, Luis
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The need for achieving consensus in group decision making problems is a common and sometimes necessary task in a myriad of social and business environments. Different consensus reaching processes have been proposed in the literature to achieve agreement among a group of experts. Initially, such processes were guided by a human moderator, but afterwards, some proposals to facilitate such a process arose by automating the moderator tasks. However, not many consensus support systems have been developed so far, due to the difficulty to manage intelligent tasks and cope with the negotiation process involved in consensus. This paper aims to present an initial prototype of an automatic consensus support system, developed by using the multi-agent paradigm that provides intelligent tools and capacities to tackle the inherent complexity found in this problem. To do so, we focus on the consensus model considered, the multi-agent architecture designed to develop such a system, and the ontology used for reasoning and communication tasks.
AB - The need for achieving consensus in group decision making problems is a common and sometimes necessary task in a myriad of social and business environments. Different consensus reaching processes have been proposed in the literature to achieve agreement among a group of experts. Initially, such processes were guided by a human moderator, but afterwards, some proposals to facilitate such a process arose by automating the moderator tasks. However, not many consensus support systems have been developed so far, due to the difficulty to manage intelligent tasks and cope with the negotiation process involved in consensus. This paper aims to present an initial prototype of an automatic consensus support system, developed by using the multi-agent paradigm that provides intelligent tools and capacities to tackle the inherent complexity found in this problem. To do so, we focus on the consensus model considered, the multi-agent architecture designed to develop such a system, and the ontology used for reasoning and communication tasks.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19934-9_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19934-9_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053027744
SN - 9783642199332
T3 - Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
SP - 125
EP - 132
BT - International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence
A2 - Abraham, Ajith
A2 - Rodriguez, Juan M. Corchado
A2 - Gonzalez, Sara Rodriguez
A2 - Paz Santana, Juan
ER -