The Round Table Model: A Web-Oriented, Agent-Based Approach To Decision-Support Applications

Not unlike King Arthur relying on the infamous Round Table as the setting for consultation with his most trusted experts, agent-based, decision-support systems provide human decision makers with a means of solving complex problems through collaboration with collections of both human and computer-based expert agents. The Round Table Framework provides a formalized architecture together with a set of development and execution tools which can be utilized to design, develop, and execute agent-based, decision-support applications. Based on a three-tier architecture, Round Table incorporates forefront technologies including distributedobject servers, inference engines, and web-based presentation to provide a framework for collaborative, agent-based decision making systems