Applications of intelligent agents
Agent technology
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Agent-oriented technology in support of e-business
Communications of the ACM
Framework for outsourcing manufacturing: strategic and operational implications
Computers in Industry - Stimulating manufacturing excellence in small and medium enterprises
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
An empirical study of XML data management in business information systems
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
Machine learning for dynamic multi-product supply chain formation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A secure migration process for mobile agents
Software—Practice & Experience
An ontology based approach to organize multi-agent assisted supply chain negotiations
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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This study presents an automated outsourcer selection and order tracking system for alliance members within a particular supply chain named Center-Satellite Factory System, where the center factory outsources its manufacturing operations to satellite factories. The objective of the proposed system is to assist the center factory to find suitable outsourcers for a particular customer order. The system employs mobile agents to convey order and capacity information between the center factory and the potential outsourcers. The final outsourcer selection decision is based upon the capacity availability of the satellite factories and their historical track record in achieving on-time deliveries. The system provides customers with an order tracking capability such that they can monitor the status of their orders as they are executed. A prototype version of the proposed system is implemented on a web platform. To enable data exchange between different organizations, the system employs an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data format. The capabilities of the proposed system are demonstrated using a case study involving a machining tool company in Taiwan.