Delegating responsibility in a multiagent process management system
John James Debenham · 2003
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.