Authors:
Vincent Couturier
;
Marc-Philippe Huget
and
David Telisson
Affiliation:
Université de Savoie, France
Keyword(s):
Enterprise Information Systems, Agents, Software Patterns, Reuse.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Market-Spaces: Market Portals, Hubs, Auctions
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
In every business the tender has become an indispensable part to foster the negotiation of new trade agreements. The selection and the attribution are nowadays a long process conducted manually. It is necessary to define criteria for selecting the best offer, evaluate each proposal and negotiate a business contract. In this paper, we present an approach based on agents for the development of an automatic award of contracts (here called Automatic Contract Net Systems). The selection and negotiation are then automatically performed through communication between agents. We focus in this paper on the tendering and selection of the best offer. To facilitate the development of complex systems such as multi-agent systems, we adopt software patterns that will guide the designer in the analysis, design and implementation on an agent-based execution platform.