Multi-Agent based Partnering Mechanism for Virtual Enterprise

• Main Authors: Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2004-06-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: negotiation; partnering; game theory; virtual enterprise; multi-agent
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P636204.pdf

Nowadays, Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a crucial paradigm of business management in agile environment. In this paper, we focus on negotiation process in VE formulation as a basic research to clarify its effective management. Each enterprise in VE is defined as agent with multi-utilities and a framework of multi-agent programming with game theoretic approach is newly proposed as negotiation algorithm amongst the agents. We develop a computer simulation model to form VE through multiple negotiations amongst several potential members in the negotiation domain, and finally clarify the formulation dynamism with the negotiation process.