Agent-based web service for the design of a dynamic coordination mechanism in supply networks

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Mahdavi ◽  
Shima Mohebbi ◽  
Mahdi Zandakbari ◽  
Namjae Cho ◽  
Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Coordination Mechanism ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Dynamic Coordination

scholarly journals Implicit Culture Framework for Behavior Transfer

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
Aliaksandr Birukou ◽  
Enrico Blanzieri ◽  
Paolo Giorgini
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Domain Independent

People belong to different communities: business communities, Web 2.0 communities, just to name a few. In this chapter the authors show that experience acquired by people in communities constitute community culture. The authors introduce the problem of culture transfer between or within communities and propose a domain-independent approach for transferring community culture. First, the authors formalize the notion of culture, which includes behavior, knowledge, artifacts, best practices, etc. Second, using this formalism, the authors propose the Implicit Culture Framework, which is an agent-based framework for transferring behavior between community members or between communities. Finally, the authors present and evaluate a system for web service discovery developed using the Implicit Culture Framework.

e-Supply Network

2011 ◽  
pp. 250-268
Author(s):  
Shima Mohebbi ◽  
Rasoul Shafaei ◽  
Namjae Cho
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Coordination Mechanism ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Supply Network ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Network Cost ◽  
Network Coordination ◽  
Supply Capacity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Total Network

The automation of negotiation among buyer-supplier-supplier triad is an important policy in e-supply network coordination (e-SNC). In addition to the buyer-supplier coordination advantages, a further coordination among suppliers is also highly important in order to maximize the network supply capacity utilization especially when the suppliers are geographically decentralized. This chapter focuses on the impact of suppliers’ coordination in a network where the coordination among buyers and suppliers is in place. The proposed agent-based model is composed of two negotiator agents, one monitor agent, and one coordinator agent. The model begins with buyer-supplier negotiation and coordination mechanism adopted from the approach developed by Mohebbi and Shafaei (2010). Then, the suppliers’ coordination mechanism is developed to investigate the interaction among suppliers and evaluate the subsequent benefit obtained in the global network. The efficiency of the proposed approach is evaluated using a simulation model. The results demonstrate that in a network where the coordination among buyers and suppliers is in place, a further coordination among suppliers leads to the reduction of total network cost.

Agent-Driven Semantic Interoperability for Cross-Organisational Business Processes

2010 ◽  
pp. 61-89
Author(s):  
Ingo Zinnikus ◽  
Christian Hahn ◽  
Klaus Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Rapid Prototyping ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Semantic Interoperability ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Semantic Web Service ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Model Driven Approach

In cross-organisational business interactions, integrating different partners raises interoperability problems especially on the technical level. The internal processes and interfaces of the participating partners are often pre-existing and have to be taken as given. This imposes restrictions on the possible solutions for the problems which occur when partner processes are integrated. The aim of this chapter is the presentation of a three-tier framework for managing and implementing interoperable and crossorganizational business processes. Thereby the authors want to fill the gap currently existing between processes defined on a strategic level and executed models. We describe a solution which supports rapid prototyping by combining a model-driven framework for cross-organisational business processes with an agent-based approach for flexible process execution. We show how the W3C recommendation for Semantic Web service descriptions can be combined with the model-driven approach for rapid service integration.

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