Cooperative Agents based Multicriteria Decision Aid

Abstract:- Decision making consists in choosing, on the basis of various criteria, an appropriate subset of actions among a set of alternatives. The most research related to this field proceeds by aggregating all the criteria in a single objective function and rank alternatives according to this scalar measure. Unfortunately, this is often quite inadequate because it risks to alter the final decision. To discard this drawback, outranking based centralized methods have been proposed. However, they remain insufficient because they don't match with the logical distribution of criteria. That is why we propose a distributed approach which finds out the best compromise between all criteria by considering them as cooperative agents. The underlying foundations are detailed and illustrated via both an example and experimentation. Key-Words:- Multicriteria optimization, decision making, cooperative agents, multi-agent systems