ABSG : a Socially Inspired Coalition Formation Agent Model

In the context of the circular economy, we conceived a new decision support system. Its goal is to design new products from highly variable post-used components. This system is open, allowing components to be added or removed at anytime. Components are avatarized as virtual agents and seen as a multiagent system. A user can require the system to design products. Therefore agents of the system must form coalitions that represent a product. We propose a new socially inspired agent model adapted to this system to tackle a coalition structure generation problem. This agent-centered model allows agents to find out with which agent to form a coalition based on the Humanities and Social Sciences principles of attraction.