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An Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach for Virtual Enterprise Modelling: A Case Study

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World III (ESAW 2002)

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Virtual enterprise established to satisfy the requirements of market is a one-off, dynamic distributed organization. In a virtual enterprise, partners who are selected form an alliance to fulfill goals that otherwise can’t be achieved for the limitation of individual’s capabilities. Modelling virtual enterprise will assist in analyzing system requirement and facilitating cooperation among the partners. This paper proposes to use strategic actor based on the i* framework to model virtual enterprise. The partners are treated as strategic agents and cooperation among them are depicted as dependency relationships. The actors in the model can form a hierarchical and federated architecture and cooperate with each other. So the virtual enterprise paradigm can be analyzed and realized based on the agent and goal-oriented approach. Example from an air-separator virtual enterprise is used to illustrate.

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  1. Department of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, 310014, Hangzhou, P.R.China

    Zhi Liu

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, M5S 3H5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Lin Liu

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  2. AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Liu, Z., Liu, L. (2003). An Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach for Virtual Enterprise Modelling: A Case Study. In: Petta, P., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World III. ESAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2577. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39173-8_20

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