Authors:
Meriem Kermani
1
;
Mahmoud Boufaida
1
and
Emmanuel Paviot-Adet
2
Affiliations:
1
LIRE laboratory, Algeria
;
2
Pierre & Marie Curie University, France
Keyword(s):
Interoperability, Inter-company Cooperation, Learning Agents.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Distributed and Parallel Applications
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet Technology
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The impact of the evolution of the global economic ecosystem, has forced and still force again organizations
to either adopt new behaviour schemas and to deeply change their structure, also to be more open to their
environment as well. These impacts require a new cooperation philosophy from organizations side. Several
studies have focused on the problem of the intercompany cooperation, proposing approaches that provide
interoperability mechanisms. But this remains an open research domain. In this work we will propose a
mediation architecture between different companies. A mediator allows us to create an intercompany
cooperative process, the purpose of this solution is to keep the company architecture and ask the mediator
which is a software-based agent to play an intermediary role between companies, and involve it in making
the transformation between companies. We define a dynamic and cooperative inter-companies model that
combines the agent technology and the decision trees paradigm
. This last facilitates making decision by
selecting the services that best meet customer needs, in order to create a composite service.
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