A Multi-Agent System to support Group Idea Generation for Creative Problem Solving

DOI
  • Minamino Ken'ichi
    Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University Graduate School of Information Sciences,Tohoku University
  • Kinoshita Tetsuo
    Graduate School of Information Sciences,Tohoku University

Description

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent system to support group idea generation by e-mail. In our prior study, as a result of an experiment using a system which provides functions of idea evaluation and chat by synchronous communication, sometimes group communication messages were not uniform in quantity and quality, depending on whether the group communication is effective or not. In order to reduce the quantitative and qualitative unevenness of messages, we propose a new group idea generation method, taking the advantage of asynchronous group communication, and we realize a multi-agent system to support its work. We construct three kinds of agent: Admin agent that manages user access and composes a group; Mail agent that sends and receives e-mail messages; User agent that monitors each member's state and generates instruction messages according to the method. As a result of an applied experiment, the unevenness of messages could be reduced.

Journal

  • SCIS & ISIS

    SCIS & ISIS 2008 (0), 281-286, 2008

    Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390001205590902912
  • NII Article ID
    130004672925
  • DOI
    10.14864/softscis.2008.0.281.0
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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