A framework for decision making in extended enterprises: The FAA NextGen case

Decision making in an extended enterprise is a highly complex task. One of the major causes of complexity of decision making in an extended enterprise is numerous stakeholders with different interests and different backgrounds. In this paper we use the process of decision making for a single decision maker and extend it to multi-agent decision making problem in order to develop a framework for decision making in an extended enterprise. In the first step we extract the interests of each agent, and then we use graph theory to make a representation of shared values. This model enables us to analyze the problem of decision making in an extended enterprise with a new set of tools. An example of FAA NextGen project is provided to show the application of this model.