An agent and goal-oriented approach for virtual enterprise modelling: a case study

Authors:
Zhi Liu;Lin Liu
Affiliations:
Department of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, P. R. China;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue:
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Virtual enterprise established to satisfy the requirements of market is a one-off, dynamic distributed organization. In a virtual enterprise, partners who are selected form an alliance to fulfill goals that otherwise can't be achieved for the limitation of individual's capabilities. Modelling virtual enterprise will assist in analyzing system requirement and facilitating cooperation among the partners. This paper proposes to use strategic actor based on the i* framework to model virtual enterprise. The partners are treated as strategic agents and cooperation among them are depicted as dependency relationships. The actors in the model can form a hierarchical and federated architecture and cooperate with each other. So the virtual enterprise paradigm can be analyzed and realized based on the agent and goal-oriented approach. Example from an air-separator virtual enterprise is used to illustrate.