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<article-title>Towards a Formal Framework for MultiObjective Multi-Agent Planning</article-title>
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<author><a href="mailto:mouaddib@info.unicaen.fr"><name>Abdel-lllah Mouaddib</name></a></author>
<aff>Marechal Juin, Campus II BP 5186 Computer Science Department <br/>14032 Caen Cedex, France
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<author><a href="mailto:mboussar@info.unicaen.fr"><name>Mathieu Boussard</name></a></author>
<aff>Marechal Juin, Campus II BP 5186 Computer Science Department 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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<author><a href="mailto:bouzid@info.unicaen.fr"><name>Maroua Bouzid</name></a></author>
<aff>Marechal Juin, Campus II BP 5186 Computer Science Department<br/> 14032 Caen Cedex, France
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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Planning (MOMAP) addresses
the problem of resolving conflicts between individual agent
interests and the group interests. In this paper, we address
this problem by presenting a formal framework to represent
objective relationships, a decision model using a Vector-
Valued Decentralized Markov Decision Process (2V-DECMDP)
and an algorithm to solve the resulting 2V-DEC-MDP.
The formal framework of a Vector-Valued MDP considered
uses the value function which returns a vector representing
the individual and the group interests. An optimal
policy in such contexts is not clear but in this approach we
develop a regret-based technique to find a good tradeoff between
the group and individual interests. To do that, the
approach we present uses Egalitarian Social Welfare orderings
that allow an agent to consider during its local optimization
the satisfaction of all criteria and reducing their
differences. The obtained result is a good balance between
individual and group satisfactions where the local policies
can lead to more global satisfying behaviors in some settings.
This result is illustrated in many examples and compared to
alternate local policies.</p>
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