Abstract:
In a multiagent process management system the distribution of
work is achieved by negotiated delegation of responsibility for
sub-processes by one agent to another. The responsibility
delegation mechanism is based on a combination of estimates for
subjective and objective payoff measures. This leads to estimates
of the probability that one agent is a better choice than another.
The probability of delegating responsibility to an agent is then
expressed as a function of these probability estimates. This
apparently convoluted probabilistic method is easy to compute
and gives good results in process management applications even
when successive payoff measurements are unpredictably varied.
