A timed workflow process model
Journal of Systems and Software
Technology for supporting supply chain management: introduction
Communications of the ACM
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction
Artificial Intelligence
Introduction: DSS: Directions for the next decade
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TAC-03: a supply-chain trading competition
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Towards Autonomous Service Composition in A Grid Environment
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Composing Web Services: A QoS View
IEEE Internet Computing
Resource constraints analysis of workflow specifications
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Applications of statistics in software engineering
QoS-Aware Replanning of Composite Web Services
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
From process logic to business logic: a cognitive approach to business process management
Information and Management
Agent-Supported Web Service Composition for Supply Chain Management
CEC-EEE '06 Proceedings of the The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services
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Journal of Management Information Systems
The design of intelligent workflow monitoring with agent technology
Knowledge-Based Systems
Autonomy Oriented Computing: From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling
Autonomy Oriented Computing: From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling
E-service/process composition through multi-agent constraint management
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Global and local qos guarantee in web service selection
BPM'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Business Process Management
Autonomy-oriented computing (AOC): formulating computational systems with autonomous components
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Optimal reorder decision-making in the agent-based apparel supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Fuzzy adaptive agent for supply chain management
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Agent-based negotiation and decision making for dynamic supply chain formation
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Agent-based simulation of competitive and collaborative mechanisms for mobile service chains
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Intelligent ontological multi-agent for healthy diet planning
FUZZ-IEEE'09 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Fuzzy Systems
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Service chain-based business alliance formation in service-oriented architecture
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Pricing the services in dynamic environment: agent pricing model
Transactions on computational collective intelligence II
Intelligent agent-assisted adaptive order simulation system in the artificial stock market
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The learning of an opponent's approximate preferences in bilateral automated negotiation
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
The new supply chain's frontier: Information management
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Designing intelligent agents to support long-term partnership in two echelon e-Supply Networks
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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With e-business emerging as a key enabler to drive supply chains, the focus of supply chain management has been shifted from production efficiency to customer-driven and partnership synchronization approaches. This strategic shift depends on the match between the demands and offerings that deliver the services. To achieve this, we need to coordinate the flow of information among the services, and link their business processes under various constraints. Existing approaches to this problem have relied on complete information of services and resources, and have failed to adequately address the dynamics and uncertainties of the operating environments. The real-world situation is complicated as a result of undetermined requirements of services involved in the chain, unpredictable solutions contributed by service providers, and dynamic selection and aggregation of solutions to services. This paper examines an agent-mediated approach to on-demand e-business supply chain integration. Each agent works as a service broker, exploring individual service decisions as well as interacting with each other for achieving compatibility and coherence among the decisions of all services. Based on the framework, a prototype has been implemented with simulated experiments highlighting the effectiveness of the approach.