Coordination ontology for multi agent based distributed decision making

Software agents can take decisions to perform different tasks to achieve a goal independently. When a number of agents take decisions collaboratively in distributed environment to achieve same goal, they need to coordinate with each other in order to avoid inconsistencies. Coordination is the process of managing interactions between these agents by identifying and possibly resolving the inconsistencies which can occur between their activities. In this work we propose a methodology by which number of agents can take their decisions independently and collaboratively by maintaining coordination between them. We propose a concept of coordination ontology for distributed decision support system. It consists of set of rules in order to coordinate actions of different agents and make a decision to achieve a goal successfully.