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A Multi-Agent System to Support Location-Based Group Decision Making in Mobile Teams

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This paper describes an agent-based approach for developing a location-based asynchronous group decision-support system for mobile teams. The approach maximises the use of reusable service components (GSCmas — generic service component for multi-agent systems) as the main interaction mechanism between agents to allow flexible support of a new group-decision process. The paper describes the architecture of a GSCmas and provides details of how the GSCmas is integrated within a decision support system. Finally a system (mPower) based on the proposed approach is introduced and applied to a location-based group decision problem.

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  1. H Lee
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  2. M A Buckland
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  3. J W Shepherdson
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Lee, H., Buckland, M.A. & Shepherdson, J.W. A Multi-Agent System to Support Location-Based Group Decision Making in Mobile Teams. BT Technology Journal 21, 105–113 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022416613660

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