Voting in multi-agent system for improvement of partial observations

  • Authors:
  • Dariusz Choinski;Mieczyslaw Metzger;Witold Nocon

  • Affiliations:
  • Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper a system for monitoring a biotechnical system is presented. Some of the events associated with the state of metabolic reactions are indistinguishable, mainly due to lack of appropriate sensors and measurement capabilities. Therefore, a solution is needed to identify the state in which the reactor currently is, based on the information and measurements available in real time. The solution presented in this paper is based on a multi agent system, in which particular agents identify the state of the process based on selected measurements. Those partial identification results are than used to provide a cumulative result by means of a voting mechanism between all the particular agents. Such a solution seems to be a promising alternative to standard monitoring and identification methods.