Computers in Industry - Special double issue: WET ICE '95
Virtual enterprise modeling and support infrastructures: applying multi-agent system approaches
Mutli-agents systems and applications
Brokerage Function in Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration - A Literature Review
PRO-VE '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.5 Third Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Reference models supporting enterprise networks and virtual enterprises
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Core processes, methods and e-services to support Virtual Enterprise Brokerage
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Infrastructures for collaboration in virtual organisations
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Agent interaction protocols for the selection of partners for virtual enterprises
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
A conceptual meta-framework for managing multicultural global virtual teams
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
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A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be described as an organisational form that emerges when individual entities form a team of partners to achieve a specific goal. The ability to assemble the best team is critical to the success of the VE and this imposes strong demands on its formation. In this paper, we present an agent-based model of a VE, where the partners of a VE are represented by software agents. We show how this model can support the different processes that are used in industry for selecting the partners. Industrial case studies have been used to illustrate the different partner selection processes that are used in industry. The selection processes are analysed using Agent Interaction Protocols (AIP) to describe the interactions that take place between the different entities.