Modeling Agents with the CSP formalism: an approach for Optimization of Distributed Problems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are an efficient ap-proach to deal with distributed complex problems. How-ever, they are slightly suited to optimization ones. In order to tackle this problem we present a model to specify Multi-Agent Systems with the Constraint Sat-isfaction Problem (CSP) formalism. It allows to take advantages from CSP solving algorithms and to deal with optimization problems. For this purpose we spec-ify agents as Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems, i.e. CSOP and consequently the MAS as a Distributed CSOP (DCSOP). We illustrate the inter-est of our approach on the antennae parameter set-ting problem which is an example of distributed con-strained problem. We implement this specification to validate the optimization function model that we pro-pose. 1