1 CPA 5937 Multi-Agent System for Project Selection Case of Urban Infrastructure - City of Houston By Wafa Elgarah Dr. Dan C. Marinescu CPA 5937 Class Project

2 CPA 5937 Motivation  Houston, we have problem!!  Project selection is a complex process  Not an integrated streamlined process  Highly political process  Large number of stakeholders  There is a need for:  An intelligent and integrated system to help in the project selection process

3 CPA 5937 Background  Preliminary analysis – 100 interviews  Logical models of the process - UML  Agent-based DSS has NOT yet been explored

4 CPA 5937 Proposed Conceptual Design

5 CPA 5937 Objective  Build an agent to help in project selection  Based on project specification  Set of criteria – budget, time, need constraints  Stakeholders votes

6 CPA 5937 Agent Structure

7 CPA 5937 Literature Review  L. Ardissono, C. Barbero, A. Goy, and G. Petrone, “An Agent Architecture for Personalized Web Stores.” In O. Etzioni, J. P.M¨uller, and J. M. Bradshaw, editors, Proc. 3rd Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS-99), pages 182–189, New York, ACM Press.  S. Balasubramanian and D. H. Norrie. “A Multi-Agent Intelligent Design System Integrating Manufacturing and Shop-Floor Control.” In Victor Lesser, editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi–Agent Systems, pages 3–9, San Francisco, CA, MIT Press.  J. M. Bradshaw. “An introduction to software agents.” In Software Agents, pages 5–46. The MIT Press,  T. Bui, and J. Lee, “An Agent-Based Framework for Building Decision Support Systems,” Decision Support Systems, Vol 25, 1999, pp  D. C. Marinescu, “Internet-based Workflow Management- Toward a Semantic Web,” 2002, Chap 6, pp  C. Roda, “A multi-agent system for advising and monitoring students navigating instructional Web sites,” online.