Doctoral Mentoring Program

In this research, the concepts of attitude and personality trait as well as their roles in agents’ decision-making concepts are discussed with regard to job selection and team member selection in multiagent team formation. This research introduces the concept of attitude to guide an agent’s behavior and personality trait to model other agents’ behavior tendency and identify helpfulness of them given the environmental parameters. It also provides methods to incorporate these attitudes and personality traits in constructing the expected utility function to guide agents in ranking the various alternatives it may have regarding job selection and team member selection. In addition, minority game and reinforcement learning will be applied to alter an agent’s attitude to adapt to the changing environments.