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• Sequential in nature.
• Exceedingly complex due to risks and trade offs.
• Influenced by personal values.
Problem in Making Rational Decisions
Ascertaining the problem: Management focuses on finding right answer rather than
right question and that is most common source of mistakes. Instead of defining “sales
is symptomatic” management defines “sales are declining”
Insufficient knowledge: Total information leading to complete knowledge, if it is
missing than not perfect rationality
Not enough time to be rational: If not enough time allocated to make rational
decision
The environment may not cooperate: Decision may fail the test of rationality
because of not cooperation. e.g. product pricing, factor oil and petroleum product
price.
Other limitations
• Compromise among the different positions
• Misjudging the motives and values of people
• Poor communications
• Misappraisal of uncertainties and risks
• Inability to handle the available knowledge and human behaviour.
II. AGENT BASED SYSTEM
An Agent is the fundamental actor on an AP which combines one or more service
capabilities into a unified and integrated execution model that may include access to
external software, human users and communications facilities. An agent may have
certain resource brokering capabilities for accessing software (see [FIPA00079]).
An agent must have at least one owner, for example, based on organisational
affiliation or human user ownership, and an agent may support several notions of
identity. An Agent Identifier (AID) labels an agent so that it may be distinguished
unambiguously within the Agent Universe. An agent may be registered at a number of
transport addresses at which it can be contacted and it may have certain resource
brokering capabilities for accessing software.[3]
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![International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD),
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III. OPEN AGENT BASED SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS USING
JADE ARCHITECTURE
Following is architecture for Agent based System for strategic decisions:
Quest Analysis Res
ion Agent ult
Knowledge
Agent
Communication
Agent
Tech Agent
Figure 1 Architecture of Agent based system for strategic decisions
For eg If a manager poses question to Open Why sales are declining: Find reasons and
solution this agent based system can be useful for same. Jade Architecture as
described below is used for communicating between different agents in the proposed
architecture .Following figure shows the main architectural elements of a JADE
platform. A JADE platform is composed of agent containers that can be distributed
over the network. Agents live in containers which are the Java process that provides
the JADE run-time and all the services needed for hosting and executing agents.
There is a special container, called the main container, which represents the bootstrap
point of a platform: it is the first container to be launched and all other containers
must join to a main container by registering with it. The UML diagram in Figure 3.2
schematizes the relationships between the main architectural elements of JADE. The
programmer identifies containers by simply using a logical name; by default the main
container is named ‘Main Container’ while the others are named ‘Container-1’,
‘Container-2’, etc. Command-line options are available to override default names.As
a bootstrap point, the main container has the following special responsibilities:[3]
• Managing the container table (CT), which is the registry of the object
references and transport addresses of all container nodes composing the
platform
• Managing the global agent descriptor table (GADT), which is the registry of
all agents present in the platform, including their current status and location
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Open agent based system for strategic decisions
- 1. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD), International Journal Computer Science and Engineering IJCSERD Research and Development (IJCSERD), (Online) Volume 1, (Print), 2, May-October (2011) ISSN 2248-9363 (Print), ISSN 2248-9371 ISSN 2248-9363 Number ISSN 2248-9371 (Online), Volume 1, Number 2, May-October (2011) © PRJ PUBLICATION pp. 47-51 © PRJ Publication http://www.prjpublication.com/IJCSERD.asp OPEN AGENT BASED SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS USING JADE ARCHITECTURE Dr. Priyanka Sharma#1, Hassan Mathkour *2, Mr. Mijal Mistry*3 Mr. Pranav Pathak*4 #1 Professor in MCA , Institute of Science and Technology for Advanced Studies and Research (ISTAR), Vallabh Vidya Nagar , Gujarat. India pspriyanka@yahoo.com #2 Department of Computer Science, College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia mathkour@ksu.edu.sa #3 Assistant Professor in MCA, Institute of Science and Technology for Advanced Studies and Research (ISTAR), Vallabh Vidya Nagar , Gujarat. India mijalmistry@rediffmail.com #4 Department of Computer Science, College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia pranavpp@gmail.com ABSTRACT Strategy is difficult decision for human manger So if we have Right information at right time for right person manager can take best decision not to regret in future. In this paper Communication based Open Agents based system is designed and developed having different agents like knowledge, interface, analysis, communication and Jade technology based agent tech_agent to answer tough question for strategy and policy formation in order to achieve goal of any company. Keywords: Agents, Strategy, Decision Making I. STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING This document is a template. An electronic copy can be downloaded from the conference website. For questions on paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications committee as indicated on the conference website. Information about final paper submission is available from the conference website. Decision is settlement, a fixed intention bringing to a conclusive result, a judgment and a resolution.“A Decision is the choice out of several options made by the decision maker to achieve some objective in a given situation. Major characteristics of the business decision making are: 47
- 2. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD), ISSN 2248-9363 (Print), ISSN 2248-9371 (Online) Volume 1, Number 2, May-October (2011) • Sequential in nature. • Exceedingly complex due to risks and trade offs. • Influenced by personal values. Problem in Making Rational Decisions Ascertaining the problem: Management focuses on finding right answer rather than right question and that is most common source of mistakes. Instead of defining “sales is symptomatic” management defines “sales are declining” Insufficient knowledge: Total information leading to complete knowledge, if it is missing than not perfect rationality Not enough time to be rational: If not enough time allocated to make rational decision The environment may not cooperate: Decision may fail the test of rationality because of not cooperation. e.g. product pricing, factor oil and petroleum product price. Other limitations • Compromise among the different positions • Misjudging the motives and values of people • Poor communications • Misappraisal of uncertainties and risks • Inability to handle the available knowledge and human behaviour. II. AGENT BASED SYSTEM An Agent is the fundamental actor on an AP which combines one or more service capabilities into a unified and integrated execution model that may include access to external software, human users and communications facilities. An agent may have certain resource brokering capabilities for accessing software (see [FIPA00079]). An agent must have at least one owner, for example, based on organisational affiliation or human user ownership, and an agent may support several notions of identity. An Agent Identifier (AID) labels an agent so that it may be distinguished unambiguously within the Agent Universe. An agent may be registered at a number of transport addresses at which it can be contacted and it may have certain resource brokering capabilities for accessing software.[3] 48
- 3. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD), ISSN 2248-9363 (Print), ISSN 2248-9371 (Online) Volume 1, Number 2, May-October (2011) III. OPEN AGENT BASED SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS USING JADE ARCHITECTURE Following is architecture for Agent based System for strategic decisions: Quest Analysis Res ion Agent ult Knowledge Agent Communication Agent Tech Agent Figure 1 Architecture of Agent based system for strategic decisions For eg If a manager poses question to Open Why sales are declining: Find reasons and solution this agent based system can be useful for same. Jade Architecture as described below is used for communicating between different agents in the proposed architecture .Following figure shows the main architectural elements of a JADE platform. A JADE platform is composed of agent containers that can be distributed over the network. Agents live in containers which are the Java process that provides the JADE run-time and all the services needed for hosting and executing agents. There is a special container, called the main container, which represents the bootstrap point of a platform: it is the first container to be launched and all other containers must join to a main container by registering with it. The UML diagram in Figure 3.2 schematizes the relationships between the main architectural elements of JADE. The programmer identifies containers by simply using a logical name; by default the main container is named ‘Main Container’ while the others are named ‘Container-1’, ‘Container-2’, etc. Command-line options are available to override default names.As a bootstrap point, the main container has the following special responsibilities:[3] • Managing the container table (CT), which is the registry of the object references and transport addresses of all container nodes composing the platform • Managing the global agent descriptor table (GADT), which is the registry of all agents present in the platform, including their current status and location 49
- 4. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD), ISSN 2248-9363 (Print), ISSN 2248-9371 (Online) Volume 1, Number 2, May-October (2011) • Hosting the AMS and the DF, the two special agents that provide the agent management and white page service, and the default yellow page service of the platform, respectively. Figure 2 Architecture Relationship between the main architectural elements We have designed several agents based on the system, following table summarize the agents, its purpose and whom it communicates. Agent Name Purpose Communicates with Agents Query/Problem/interface/input User who is mainly form upper and middle Knowledge Management poses to Interface Knowledge_Agent This agent has knowledge ,precious Tech_agent, experience ,data etc. about Organization and Analysis External resources useful for inference the knowledge Tech_agent Here Jade Architecture is considered as tool Knowledge_Agent for establishing communication between two Analysis very important agents K and A as they are responsible for new strategy formation Analysis_Agent Analysis of problem through Model or data Tech_ agent based for result Communication_Agent Represent output to user which is policy Tech_ agent making /strategy formation with analysis of Analysis problem and justification of solution TABLE I: The summarized of different agents is as below: 50
- 5. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD), ISSN 2248-9363 (Print), ISSN 2248-9371 (Online) Volume 1, Number 2, May-October (2011) IV. CONCLUSIONS Strategy is difficult decision for human manger so if we have Right information at right time for right person manager can take best decision not to regret ion future. For this communication agents system as developed in this paper can be very helpful as it is modularity and agent based divided. V REFERENCES 1. D. Chess and B. Grosof and C. Harrison and D. Levine and C. Parris and G. Tsudik, “Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing”, Journal IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 2, No. 5, October, 1995. 2. E. Turban, J. E. Aronson: Decision Support Systems and Intelligence systems, Pearson Education, 2001 3. J Russell, Peter Norvig : Artificial Intelligence : A modern approach , Pearson Education Asia ,2003systems, Pearson Education, 2001 4. Jim Blythe ,An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition ,Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 5 Wiley.Developing.Multi.Agent.Systems.with.JADE by Fabio Bellifemine, 6. http://www.cs.uga.edu 7. http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk 8. http://www.daac.gsfc.nasa.gov 9. http://www.diglib.tums.ac.ir 10. http://www.doi.ieeecomputersociety.org 11http://www.isnar.cgiar.or 51