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Abstract: |
Virtual organization refers to the temporary teaming of enterprises for the rapid development of a new product or service; by sharing physical, human and knowledge resources, via information technologies, a virtual organization enables member enterprises to share skills, costs, access to one another???s markets and, at the same time decrease the risk of investments. To realize this new generation of business model, the ability to form, operation, and dissolution of virtual enterprise is of foremost importance. The thesis reports on our experiences gained by implementing a multi-agent system that simulates an artificial e-marketplace, for which we have derive mechanisms for the decision-making processes in various stages of a virtual organization. In order to better understand the organizational problem, we have conducted experiments to study the behaviors of individual enterprise (represented by agents) under different control settings. In additional, we have modified a statistical model, that predicts scheduling conflicts and agent rewards, as a comparison tool for the correctness of our agent system. |
