Towards a Multi-Agent System Architecture for Supply Chain Management
This addresses the need for more flexible and collaborative supply chain systems in e-commerce, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing multi-agent approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of adapting supply chain management to distributed e-commerce environments by proposing a multi-agent system architecture that supports interoperability with existing business models, and it demonstrates this through the implementation of a collaborative agent.
Individual business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and changing market conditions. This paper presents a multi-agent system architecture for supply chain management, which explores different strategies and offers solutions in a distributed e-commerce environment. The system is designed to support different types of interfaces, which allow interoperating with other business models already developed. In order to show how the entire multi-agent system is being developed, the implementation of a collaborative agent is presented and explained.