Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Marina Bitsaki, Santiago Goméz Sáez, Dimka Karastoyanova, Christos Nikolaou, Alina Psycharaki

2014

Abstract

Large-scale systems comprising of multiple heterogeneous entities are directly influenced by the interactions of their participating entities. Such entities, both physical and virtual, attempt to satisfy their objectives by dynamically collaborating with each other, and thus forming collective adaptive systems. These systems are subject to the dynamicity of the entities’ objectives, and to changes to the environment. In this work we focus on the latter, i.e. on providing the means for entities in such systems to model, monitor and evaluate their perceived utility by participating in the system. This allows for them to make informed decisions about their interactions with other entities in the system. For this purpose we propose a utility-based approach for decision making, as well as an architecture that allows for the support of this approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Andrikopoulos V., Bitsaki M., Goméz Sáez S., Karastoyanova D., Nikolaou C. and Psycharaki A. (2014). Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 308-314. DOI: 10.5220/0004937403080314

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer14,
author={Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Marina Bitsaki and Santiago Goméz Sáez and Dimka Karastoyanova and Christos Nikolaou and Alina Psycharaki},
title={Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2014},
pages={308-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004937403080314},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Andrikopoulos V.
AU - Bitsaki M.
AU - Goméz Sáez S.
AU - Karastoyanova D.
AU - Nikolaou C.
AU - Psycharaki A.
PY - 2014
SP - 308
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0004937403080314