On Organizational Knowledge for MultiAgent System Development

Though there are many projects focusing on multiagent systems, there are only a few focusing on systematic design of large-scale multi-agent system. Electronic commerce is an example of such systems. In this project, we introduce a model and devise an implementation for the large-scale knowledge sharing using Bayesian networks, game theory and network security. The agent model for the system components blends the traditional expert systems ' reasoning engine with a multi-layer knowledge base, communication and documentation engines. Electronic commerce (EC) is a potential application for such a system. EC is viewed as a society of software agents, such as customer, search, catalog, manufacturer, dealer, delivery and banker agents, distributed over the Internet and interact and negotiate with each other