A Multi-Criteria and Multi-Agent Framework for supporting complex decision-making processes

Author(s)

Leoneti, Alexandre Bevilacqua ; Banares-Alcantara, Rene ; Pires, Eduardo Cleto ; de Oliveira, Sonia Valle Walter Borges

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION; v. 31, n. 5, p. 26-pg., 2022-08-05.

Abstract

A framework for modeling multi-criteria and multi-agent decision making processes as a non-cooperative game including a phase for solving the game by using the concept of equilibrium solution is presented. In the presence of a non-singular solution, the framework includes a phase for refining the solution by the application of a social welfare function. The framework is named Multi-Criteria and Multi-Agent Framework. The framework makes possible the strategic performance in complex decision-making, creating transparency within the process of selecting alternatives that are under evaluation in a multi-criteria perspective by agents with heterogeneous preferences. This paper includes a simulation to demonstrate the applicability of the framework to a complex engineering problem such as the choice of a Wastewater Treatment Plant for a municipality. Convergence of choices of five experts that participated in the simulation was demonstrated by the application of the framework. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/07598-3 - Multicriterial method based on indexes of sustainable to aid in the choice of treatment systems for sewage
• Grantee: Alexandre Bevilacqua Leoneti
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/03722-5 - Structural development for the use of Game Theory in organizational group multicriteria decision making problem solving
• Grantee: Alexandre Bevilacqua Leoneti
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 13/06807-3 - Bio-energy production using vinasse processing: reactor evaluation
• Grantee: Eduardo Cleto Pires
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International