Business Ecosystem Modelling: Combining Natural Ecosystems and Multi-Agent Systems

Authors:
César A. Marín;Iain Stalker;Nikolay Mehandjiev
Affiliations:
School of Informatics, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville St, Manchester M60 1QD, UK;School of Informatics, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville St, Manchester M60 1QD, UK;School of Informatics, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville St, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
Venue:
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The increasing popularity of the "business ecosystem" concept in (business) strategy reflects that it is seen as one way to cope with increasingly dynamic and complex business environments. Nevertheless, the lack of a convincing model of a business ecosystem has led to the development of software which only give organisations a partial aid whilst neglecting their need for adaptation. Research in Multi-Agent Systems has proved to be suitable for modelling interactions among disparate sort of entities such as organisations. On the other hand, natural ecosystems continue to adapt themselves to changes in their dynamic and complex environments. In this paper, we present the Dynamic Agent-based Ecosystem Model. It combines ideas from natural ecosystems and multi-agent systems for business interactions.