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The selection of business partners is a very important and critical activity in the operation of a company in VE. In this paper, we focus on the 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 contract-net protocol (CNP) is applied as a negotiation algorithm amongst the agents. The effectiveness of the proposed concept in the agile manufacturing is discussed with several simulation experiments.
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Kaihara, T., Fujii, S. (2002). A Proposal on Negotiation Methodology in Virtual Enterprise. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35585-6_14
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