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A multi-agent system architecture for business-to-business applications

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  • Paolo Renna

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The e-business scenario, generally speaking, can be considered as an opportunity for enterprises to extend their market to a wide region. Moreover, Multi-agent Systems (MASs) are exploited to support the development of this opportunity among firms. In particular, the e-business and the MAS approach are very strictly linked, especially if we look at the Business-to-Business (B2B) applications based on the e-marketplaces. The paper presents a MAS architecture to sustain a catalogue-based e-marketplace by using workflow management methodologies for the design activities, the agent-based technologies and the implementation phases, and open source IT tools for the software platform development. Subsequently, the formalised e-marketplace is linked to a production planning algorithm to support the negotiation stage among the involved agents. Finally, a discrete event simulation environment is utilised to validate the proposed MAS architecture and, using an appropriate test model, to evaluate the performances of the negotiation protocol.

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  • Paolo Renna, 2009. "A multi-agent system architecture for business-to-business applications," International Journal of Services and Operations Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(3), pages 375-401.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsoma:v:5:y:2009:i:3:p:375-401
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    1. Zhang, Linlan & Song, Haigang & Chen, Xueguang & Hong, Liu, 2011. "A simultaneous multi-issue negotiation through autonomous agents," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 210(1), pages 95-105, April.

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