Collaborative Team Construction in Open Multi-Agents System

Abstract

Agents usually organize their behavior and cooperate to reach a common global goal by sharing constrained resources or perform complex tasks. Constructing an efficient collaborative team where agents are ready to collaborate without interests' conflict is fundamental for the success of any collaboration process. The construction of such teams was well discussed in closed Multi-Agents System (MAS). Nevertheless, it represents a real challenge in open MAS, where each agent joins and leaves the system unpredictably and frequently and has a set of goals to achieve concurrently (agent is self-interested). This study describes an entire decentralized method to the collaborative Team Construction Model (CTCM) for multi-goals agents in open MAS. CTCM defines a modified social reasoning model and a new decentralized team construction method. CTCM allows each agent to achieve its local and common goals concurrently in constrained resource open MAS by constructing collaborative teams. The agents share partial domain knowledge (to preserve privacy) and model their goal relations with other agents by applying modified social reasoning. The team construction method facilitates agents decision-making process in a decentralized way. The CTCM enables agents to adjust their self-interest level and adapt their readiness to construct effective collaborative teams.