PhD Defence Mickael Bettinelli

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Abstract: This work is part of the Circular project, which aims to set up the tools and the necessary conditions for the design of a new industrial decision support system for the circular economy. This industrial system will have to be able to transform post-used products at the end of their life into new products through the use of reconditioning strategies based on the reuse of their components. This thesis focuses on the design of this decision support system using the multi-agent paradigm. The post-used components are avatarized into virtual agents that are part of the multi-agent system. Virtual agents have the ability to manipulate knowledge, communicate and make decisions. In other words, we associate to each physical component a virtual agent with the same characteristics (physical, logistic, etc.). In the same way that a product is a set of components assembled together, we want our agents to self-organize into coalitions in order to form the products requested by a user of the decision support system. This problem is very similar to a coalition formation problem in the computer science literature. Moreover, we do the analogy between the agents of our multi-agent system and individuals. Thanks to this analogy, we propose to tackle the coalition formation problem by drawing inspiration from a field of sociology, group dynamics. The work addressed in this thesis focuses on the design of an agent architecture inspired by sociological mechanisms capable of solving the coalition formation problem and allowing to meet the needs of the decision support system.}

Keywords: MAS, agent architecture, circular economy, decision support system, Group Dynamics