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We focus on the strategy problem arising as a manager faces situations involving a choice between a finite set of strategies, having access to a finite set of agents reporting their opinions. The most preferred strategy is determined from the agents' individual opinions and the relative credibility of each agent. The evaluation method used is primarily based on the principle of maximising the expected utility. The evaluation results in a set of admissible strategies. These strategies can be further investigated with respect to their relative strengths and also with respect to the number of values consistent with the given domain that make them admissible.
An earlier version of this paper can be found in the proceedings of the Scandinavian Research Seminar on Information and Decision Networks, April 1994, University College of Växjö, Sweden.
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Ekenberg, L., Danielson, M., Boman, M. (1996). A tool for handling uncertain information in multi-agent systems. In: Perram, J.W., Müller, JP. (eds) Distributed Software Agents and Applications. MAAMAW 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61157-6_21
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