Integration of Collective Knowledge in Financial Decision Support System

Execution of a process supporting making financial decisions using the multiagent system entails the need of permanent cooperation between a human (humans) and agent (agents) collectives. Their knowledge is acquired from autonomous and distributed sources and they use different decision support methods therefore certain level of heterogeneity characterizes knowledge of collectives. In the decision-making process one, final decision is required therefore knowledge of individual members of the collective shall be automatically integrated. The aim of the paper is to develop consensus method in order to integrate knowledge of human-agent collectives in a multiagent financial decision support system built with the use of cognitive agent architecture. The first part shortly presents the state-of-the-art in the considered field; next a Multiagent Cognitive Financial Decision Support System has been characterized. The last part of paper presents the consensus algorithm for knowledge integration.