Extension of the multi-agent resource conversion processes model: Implementation of agent coalitions

摘要

Most simulation models have an idea preceding their design. An idea to improve the effectiveness of a certain solution or to estimate the consequences of some activity. For the most part simulation software helps us, especially when we have a complex, but a predefined scenario for the process development. But in the case when we have multiple decision making persons interacting with each other, having conflicts when using common resources or trying to achieve a common goal but using different methods, we need to simulate this behavior as well. In the paper we present the architecture of the multi-agent resource conversion processes, which was extended with the support for the agent coalitions, that allows the simulation of such scenarios with multiple interacting agents.