Authors:
Loris Penserini
1
;
Luca Spalazzi
2
and
Maurizio Panti
2
Affiliations:
1
ITC-irst, Scientific and Technological Research Institute, Italy
;
2
DIIGA, Universià Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Keyword(s):
Software Agents and Internet Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Intelligent Agents
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Internet Technology
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This paper proposes and describes a prototype of a peer-to-peer based infrastructure to support virtual enterprise’s supply chain management. Because of a virtual enterprise is composed of autonomous, distributed, and continuously evolving entities, we have naturally modelled each business entity like a peer’s agent platform that can play several roles according to the task to be fulfilled. To this end, we describe and apply such roles, required to the organizational architecture, into a virtual storehouse scenario.