Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation
Artificial Intelligence
Predicate logic: the semantic foundations of logic
Predicate logic: the semantic foundations of logic
Technology for supporting supply chain management: introduction
Communications of the ACM
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology
Distributed simulation with incorporated APS procedures for high-fidelity supply chain optimization
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
An agenda-based framework for multi-issue negotiation
Artificial Intelligence
Argumentation-based negotiation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
Composing Web Services: A QoS View
IEEE Internet Computing
An architecture for workflow scheduling under resource allocation constraints
Information Systems
From process logic to business logic: a cognitive approach to business process management
Information and Management
Multi-site coordination using a multi-agent system
Computers in Industry
Argumentation in artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
On-demand e-supply chain integration: A multi-agent constraint-based approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The design of intelligent workflow monitoring with agent technology
Knowledge-Based Systems
Information Sharing as a Coordination Mechanism for Reducing the Bullwhip Effect in a Supply Chain
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Distributed control of production systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Engineering deontic protocols by means of organizational Petri nets
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
ETFA'09 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Emerging technologies & factory automation
Decentralised Supply Chain Formation: A Belief Propagation-based Approach
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pricing the services in dynamic environment: agent pricing model
Transactions on computational collective intelligence II
Applications of agent-based models for optimization problems: A literature review
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
KEMNAD: A Knowledge Engineering Methodology For Negotiating Agent Development
Computational Intelligence
Robotic clusters: Multi-robot systems as computer clusters
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
A multi-agent system for distributed multi-project scheduling: An auction-based negotiation approach
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Cross-Organisational decision support: an agent-enabled approach
ICCCI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part I
Engineering e-Collaboration Services with a Multi-Agent System Approach
International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
An argumentation-oriented multi-agent system for automating the freight planning process
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An argumentative approach of conceptual modelling and model validation through theory building
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
An efficient automated negotiation strategy for complex environments
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A utility concession curve data fitting model for quantitative analysis of negotiation styles
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Modern businesses are facing the challenge of effectively coordinating their supply chains from upstream to downstream services. It is a complex problem to search, schedule, and coordinate a set of services from a large number of service resources under various constraints and uncertainties. Existing approaches to this problem have relied on complete information regarding service requirements and resources, without adequately addressing the dynamics and uncertainties of the environments. The real-world situations are complicated as a result of ambiguity in the requirements of the services, the uncertainty of solutions from service providers, and the interdependencies among the services to be composed. This paper investigates the complexity of supply chain formation and proposes an agent-mediated coordination approach. Each agent works as a broker for each service type, dedicated to selecting solutions for each service as well as interacting with other agents in refining the decision making to achieve compatibility among the solutions. The coordination among agents concerns decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational level. At the strategic level, agents communicate and negotiate for supply chain formation; at the tactical level, argumentation is used by agents to communicate and understand the preferences and constraints of each other; at the operational level, different strategies are used for selecting the preferences. Based on this approach, a prototype has been implemented with simulated experiments highlighting the effectiveness of the approach.