Agent based task specific team formation for effective distributed decision making

Getting solution of a problem by group discussion is more reliable than getting solution from a single entity. To increase reliability of the solution, efficient group of experts should be formed. Here in this paper we have proposed a methodology for finding efficient team of experts for solution of a given problem collaboratively. The methodology is conceptualized with the notion of Multiagent system. We have considered several factors like Cardinality of team, ability, willingness, trust and reciprocality of an agent in order to construct the team. We have also proposed an optimization function which will be used to choose most eligible agents to form the team of experts.

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