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Vol. 1 (2025)
DOI : https://doi.org/10.66096/JIGBP.V1.6
Published : Jan 8, 2025

Latent Boundary Negotiation in Adaptive Workflows: Modeling Decision Drift in Multi-Agent Configurations

person Sophia Lee (1)

(1) Circular Economy Consultant, VerdeVantage Innovations, Canada
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Abstract

In increasingly dynamic organizational and computational environments, workflows controlled by multi-agent systems face often face context changes, blurred task borders, and unexpected behaviors. This research proposes a new model for coping with decision drift in adaptive workflows by modeling latent boundary negotiation. By using concepts from complex systems theory, cognitive modeling, and distributed artificial intelligence, we define agents as autonomous systems which are able to perceive, report, and re-negotiate internal role expectations through localized negotiation protocols. The designed model merges drift detection with multi-agent coordination techniques and correlates them to simulated workflow processes typical for high risk, time constrained settings like crisis management, distributed logistics, and agile development teams. Simulation results show that latent negotiation improves task coherence, decreases agent interference, and stabilizes the performance of workflows under ambiguous and changing boundary conditions much more than negotiation less systems. The benefits of negotiation-aware multi-agent systems in supporting sustained alignment of decisions and flexibility in the system are highlighted through comparison with static and rule-based systems. The results outline latent boundary negotiation as a key feature towards the implementation of intelligent self-organizing work systems in decentralized multi agent ecosystems.