Mediating negotiations in a virtual enterprise via mobile agents

Abstract

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Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents, Aarhus, Denmark, August 27-28, 2001

“…We presented in this paper some techniques how to translate an interaction process type specified by reaction rules into a Petri net. To perform experiment with agents we are using the PROVE system (see [Szi00] and [Aer00]) that bis based on the production rule engine JESS (Java Expert System Shell). The syntax of Jess rules is almost similar with CLIPS, and the rules described in the AOR diagrams must be translated (by a rule generator linked to the AOR enabled-editor) to obtain these in the format needed by the inference engine used by the agents.…”

Flexible Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises

“…The deployment of mobile software agents has been studied in applications such as networked electronic trading [4] and mediation of negotiations [13]. In the latter, software agents play the role of a human supervisor, who is in charge of the tracking, monitoring and problem management of a specific product item.…”

“…The service bridge provides the semantic alignment of the local IS to the common shared ontology. On top of the basic infrastructure the VE support system can be built and consists of the mobile agents that provide the product tracking functionality [13]. In addition, some components, such as the web portal, with a product catalogue and ordering and tracking facilities that serve the VE as a whole are needed, and some components that are specific to an individual enterprise.…”

“…Should one of these leave, then the continuation of the VE may be in danger. Our position is that the development of the agents and the common services, such as scheduling and repositories for data and the ontology is best handled by an independent, trusted third party, that we call SACP (Software Agent Common Provider) [13]. This SA-provider plays a role similar to the Internet-, the V AN-and the ASP-providers.…”

Agent-based monitoring service for management of disruptive events in supply chains

“…Monitoring systems are conceived as an extension of traditional tracking and tracing systems [20,21] with capability to collect data and to process these data in order to detect and/or anticipate disruptive events. Monitoring system capabilities rely on the monitoring process that defines the set of task to be performed for anticipating/detecting disruptive events [22].…”