Managing a digital business ecosystem using a simulation tool

  • Authors:

  • Miguel Lurgi;Francesc Estanyol

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;University of Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we employ an ecologically inspired simulation tool for creating and managing collaboration links in a digital business ecosystems. In open, self-organising environments such as those provided by digital ecosystems, in which digital entities behave autonomously for their own benefit, we are sometimes interested in finding collaboration links amongst agents in order to achieve goals in an easier way. A particular kind of this type of digital environments are the digital business ecosystems, in which companies interact with each other in order to create new joint ventures. We are interested in applying ecological ideas for the formation of links of collaboration between small companies represented by artificial intelligent agents within a digital business ecosystem. For this purpose we employ a simulation tool which takes inspiration from ecology to develop links of interactions between entities in a digital environment: this is a multi-agent based simulation environment which also facilitates the analysis of the resulting networks of interactions by employing a set of metrics that are commonly used for the study of complex systems. Analyses performed using this tool will allow us to manage the digital business ecosystem of small companies in an efficient manner.