Delegating responsibility in a multiagent process management system

  • Authors:

  • John Debenham

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In a multiagent process management system the distribution of work is achieved by negotiated delegation of responsibility for sub-processes by one agent to another. The responsibility delegation mechanism is based on a combination of estimates for subjective and objective payoff measures. This leads to estimates of the probability that one agent is a better choice than another. The probability of delegating responsibility to an agent is then expressed as a function of these probability estimates. This apparently convoluted probabilistic method is easy to compute and gives good results in process management applications even when successive payoff measurements are unpredictably varied.