UM SISTEMA MULTIAGENTE PARA APOIO AS DECISÕES NO PROCESSO DE LICITAÇÃO PÚBLICA

Abstract

Public licitation is an administrative process which goal is to purchase goods or services to the sectors belonging to the public administration and follow the rules of law no. 8.666/93. In this process public officials need to take decisions such as choosing the type and modality of the licitation. Due to the complexity of the law governing the licitation process and the great possibilities of conducting the licitation process in different scenarios and also its dynamism in the face of constant changes in legislation, we developed a multi-agent system to optimize the decisions of those responsible for acquiring goods and services for the public administration. A Multiagent System is a system composed of several agents that communicate and are collectively capable of achieving goals that they would not be able to meet separately. The complexity of these systems is approached through interactions between agents. We used the exchange messages architecture, where agents communicate directly with each other through asynchronous messages using a chat protocol, which sets the rules and enforces the formalism necessary for messages to be sent and understood by the agents. To specify the system we adopted MADAE-Pro, a process which guides the development of multi-agent systems through the phases of specification, design and implementation.