Agents, Availability Awareness,and Decision Making

摘要

Despite the importance ofresource availability, the inclusion ofavailability awareness in current agent-based systems is limited, particularly in decision support settings. This article discusses issues related to availability awareness in agent-based systems and proposes that knowledge of resources’online status and readiness in these systems can improve decision outcomes. A conceptual model for incorporating availability and presence awareness in an agent-based system is presented, and an implementation framework operationalizing the conceptual model using JADE is proposed Finally, the framework is developed as an agent-based decision support system (DSS) and evaluated in a decision making simulation.