An agent-based architecture for supply chain management

Business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and changing market conditions. This paper presents a multi-agent system arc...

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Main Authors: Jaimez-Gonzalez, Carlos R., Luna-Ramirez, Wulfrano A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Agent Technology
Agent-Based Architecture
Collaboration
Collaborative Agents
E-Commerce
Materials
Multi-agent systems
Supply chain management
Supply chains
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Summary:Business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and changing market conditions. This paper presents a multi-agent system architecture for supply chain management, which explores different strategies and offers solutions in a distributed e-commerce environment. The system is designed to support different types of interfaces, which allow interoperating with other business models already developed. In order to show how the entire multi-agent system is being developed, the implementation of a collaborative agent is presented and explained. The testing and evaluation of the entire multi-agent system is being carried out in an agent-based experimentation platform.
DOI:10.1109/ISADS.2013.6513405