Tradeoffs in Decision-Making Frameworks and Interaction Styles

Collaborative Learning Agents

Volume

Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This research analyzes the performance of individual agents and groups of agents in different Decision-Making Frameworks across a variety of situations. A Decision- Making Framework (DMF) specifies how a set of agents interacts when determining how a set of goals should be achieved (Barber and Martin, 2001). A Decision-Making Framework is (1) the decision-making control set - which agents make decisions about the goals, (2) the authorityover set - which agents must carry out the decisions, and (3) the set of goals under consideration. The experiment domain is naval radar interference management.