Intelligent Agents based Architecture for Distributed Decision Support to Manage Projects Lifecycle

An intelligent agents based architecture framework for decision support to manage projects’ lifecycle is proposed. The intent of the proposed framework is to improve the way projects’ life cycle is handled in today’s cross-organizational projects, by assisting cooperation managers to control the development process in a reliability driven manner. The proposed decision support framework uses distributed agents and concentrates on a formal approach to capture the system’s architectural artifacts. It relies on Jini and JavaSpaces services. The importance of this work is that it fits seamlessly into the current efforts of companies for controlling complex projects within the estimated budget and time.