Intelligent information-sharing systems
Communications of the ACM
Object oriented design with applications
Object oriented design with applications
Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
A distributed decision support system for strategic planning
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intelligent agents as a basis for decision support systems
Distributed decision-making using the contract net within a mediator architecture
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intelligent agents as a basis for decision support systems
SoftCord: an intelligent agent for coordination in software development projects
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intelligent agents as a basis for decision support systems
Lifelike computer characters: the persona project at Microsoft
Software agents
Software agents for cooperative learning
Software agents
Agents for information gathering
Software agents
KAoS: toward an industrial-strength open agent architecture
Software agents
A market architecture for multi-agent contracting
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Competitive scenarios for heterogeneous trading agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Pitfalls of agent-oriented development
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Some intelligent software supply chain agents
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Petri Net Theory and the Modeling of Systems
Petri Net Theory and the Modeling of Systems
From EDI to Electronic Commerce: A Business Initiative
From EDI to Electronic Commerce: A Business Initiative
Petri Nets and Grafcet: Tools for Modelling Discrete Event Systems
Petri Nets and Grafcet: Tools for Modelling Discrete Event Systems
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Doing Business in the Wired World
Computer
Distributed Intelligent Agents
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
The FindMe Approach to Assisted Browsing
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Developing an Automated Distributed Meeting Scheduler
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Pattie Maes on Software Agents: Humanizing The Global Computer
IEEE Internet Computing
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
Some Economics of Market-Based Distributed Scheduling
ICDCS '98 Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Knowledge-based organizational process redesign: using process flow measures to transform procurement
Designing Agent-Based Electronic Employment Markets
Electronic Commerce Research
Agent architecture for agent-based supply chain integration & coordination
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
An Experiment to Assess the Performance of a Redesign Knowledge System
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Self-organized supply chain networks: theory in practice and an analog simulation based approach
Autonomics '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Ontology support for Agent-based Simulation of Organizations
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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Supply chain management represents a critical competency in today's fast-paced, global business environment. However, in the current transition from EDI to Web-based supply chain technologies, much of the capability for process integration is being lost. And the integration of buyer and seller supply chain processes is critical for speed and responsiveness in today's hypercompetitive product and service markets. Intelligent agent technology offers the potential to overcome many limitations of current supply chain technologies. This paper presents intelligent supply chain agents that represent and autonomously conduct business on behalf of product users, buyers and vendors. We classify and present numerous extant agent applications and extend a technological framework to compare and contrast intelligent agents with other classes of information technology. We then describe an agent-based supply chain process design, along with its developmental techniques, and the structure and behavior of an agent federation used for integration in a major enterprise. We present results of this exploratory research in terms of technical feasibility and process performance in the enterprise context. This work is novel in that it integrates process-level knowledge from operational enterprises with distributed agent technologies. And it makes a contribution by demonstrating how agent-based supply chain integration can be effected along a large-scale, operational, inter-organizational process.