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Design of a Participatory Decision Making Agent Architecture Based on Argumentation and Influence Function – Application to a Serious Game about Biodiversity Conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2010

Alessandro Sordoni ,
Jean-Pierre Briot ,
Isabelle Alvarez ,
Eurico Vasconcelos ,
Marta de Azevedo Irving  and
Gustavo Melo
Alessandro Sordoni
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS, Paris, France. alessandro.sordoni@gmail.com; Jean-Pierre.Briot@lip6.fr
Jean-Pierre Briot
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS, Paris, France. alessandro.sordoni@gmail.com; Jean-Pierre.Briot@lip6.fr Computer Science Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. jose_eurico@yahoo.com
Isabelle Alvarez
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ingénierie pour les Systèmes Complexes (LISC), CEMAGREF, Aubière, France. isabelle.alvarez@cemagref.fr
Eurico Vasconcelos
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. jose_eurico@yahoo.com
Marta de Azevedo Irving
Affiliation:
EICOS Program, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. mirving@mandic.com.br; melo.gustavo@yahoo.com
Gustavo Melo
Affiliation:
EICOS Program, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. mirving@mandic.com.br; melo.gustavo@yahoo.com
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Abstract

This paper addresses an ongoing experience in the design of an artificial agenttaking decisionsand combining them with the decisions taken by human agents.The context is a serious game research project,aimed at computer-based support for participatory management of protected areas(and more specifically national parks)in order to promote biodiversity conservation and social inclusion.Its objective isto help various stakeholders (e.g., environmentalist, tourism operator)to collectively understand conflict dynamicsandexplore negotiationstrategies for the management of parks.In this paper,after introducing the design of our serious game, named SimParc,we will describe the architecture of the decision making agent playing the role of the park manager.In the game, the park manager makes final decisions based on its own analysisand also on the votes of the stakeholders.It includes two modules:1) individual decision –based on a model of argumentation,which also provides a basis to justify and explain the decision;2) participatory decision –to take into account the preferences/votes from the stakeholders.

Keywords

Artificial agentarchitecturedecisioncollectiveparticipatoryargumentationnegotiationserious gamemanagement of the environmentAgent artificielarchitecturedécision collectiveparticipatifargumentationnégotiationjeu sérieuxgestion de l'environnement.
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Operations Research , Volume 44 , Issue 4: COGIS'09 , October 2010 , pp. 269 - 283
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, ROADEF, SMAI, 2010

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