VirtES (Virtual Enterprise Simulator): A Proposed Methodology for Enterprise Simulation Modeling

Davoli, Giovanni; Gallo, Sergio Amedeo; Melloni, Riccardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16358-6_47

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“…The first example is based on the VirtES methodology (Davoli, Gallo, & Melloni, 2010) developedforVEsimulationmodelling,providingsupporttobusinessprocessre-engineering(BPR) activities(capableofimprovingtheperformancesofaVEinmanycases).Themethodologyisvery flexible.Itisbasedonamulti-levelsimulationmodelandhasthefollowingstages:development ofaprocess-basedmodel,developmentofasimulationmodelbasedontheprocessesmodel(i.e.a "high-level"simulationofthewholeenterprise-donebyusingtheSciLabopensourceplatform). Thenextstageisadetailedsimulationandoptimizationsub-models'development(i.e.…”

Section: Framework and Methodologies For Ves Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Agent-Oriented Business Collaboration Model

Musumba

Wario

Wamuyu

2018

International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence

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Business collaborations have gained prominence in many domains mediated by information technology platforms. These collaborations, normally referred to as virtual enterprises (VEs) consider varying core competencies of participants. The VEs' dynamic nature requires participants to be dynamically selected and engaged. This requires a flexible systematic approach, lacking in existing literature, to handle varying forms of VEs. This study aims to consider a VE from an enterprise integration viewpoint and to develop an agent-based model that supports the VE's formation and operation phases. This model will provide support to business managers in making decisions efficiently by delegating part of the processes to software agents. An agent-based VE (ABVE) model prototype is developed. Case studies from various domains are used in the demonstration of the model's applicability and possible generalization. After evaluation it is shown that users are motivated to use the model as an effective tool for VE formation and collaborations in diverse domains with an 88.86% acceptance rate.

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Section: Framework and Methodologies For Ves Developmentmentioning

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Towards an Agent-Oriented Business Collaboration Model

Musumba

Wario

Wamuyu

2018

International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence

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“…More research efforts are directed to the design and implementation of various platforms for collaborative networks, as support tools of the VE development infrastructure or for electronic institutions. For example, an early work reported in [18] introduced Agora, an infrastructure for cooperative work support in multi-agent systems, that was used for VE, while recent works introduce a service-oriented framework for virtual organizations support: a collaborative network in [26], the SOAVE platform in [19], the PaaS framework in [29], and the VirtES, a VE simulator in [8]. Some methodological issues about the development of agent-based VEs are described in [6,17,18,23] etc.…”

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ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering

Oprea¹

2014

SCPE

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Modelling efficient virtual enterprises (VEs) represents a real challenge in the context of dynamic, complex and extending business markets. Among the modelling approaches proposed for VEs, multi-agent systems are more suitable due to their basic characteristics of flexibility, modularity, distributivity as well as some characteristics such as adaptability and learning, that could be added in order to improve the overall VE performance and scalability. The application of VEs and agent-based VEs were proposed for several industrial domains: automotive industry, food industry, electronics and telecommunications, transportation, robotics, for manufacturing and supply chain problems solving. This paper presents a generic framework for virtual enterprises development, VE-Frame, and an agent-based virtual enterprise model, ABVE-Construct, for the civil engineering domain, derived from the VE-Frame. Also, a case study of using the model for a building construction scenario, and the model adaptation options for other domains of applications are discussed.

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The development of an agent-based virtual enterprise for civil engineering - A preliminary report

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2013

2013 17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)

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VirtES (Virtual Enterprise Simulator): A Proposed Methodology for Enterprise Simulation Modeling

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Towards an Agent-Oriented Business Collaboration Model

Towards an Agent-Oriented Business Collaboration Model

ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering

The development of an agent-based virtual enterprise for civil engineering - A preliminary report

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