Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
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Future manufacturing systems—towards the extended enterprise
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Sharing manufacturing information in virtual enterprises
Communications of the ACM
The agile virtual enterprise: cases, metrics, tools
The agile virtual enterprise: cases, metrics, tools
IEEE Internet Computing
MAgNET: Mobile Agents for Networked Electronic Trading
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mobile Code, Distributed Computing, and Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape
IEEE Intelligent Systems
On the Design of a Mobile Agent Web for Supporting Virtual Enterprises
WETICE '00 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Merging a Knowledge Systematisation Framework with a Mobile Agent Architecture
DIISM '98 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3/5.7 Third International Working Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing II
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DIISM '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3/5.7/5.12 Fourth International Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing: Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Enterprise Networks
Flexible Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises
DIISM '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3/5.7/5.12 Fourth International Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing: Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Enterprise Networks
Mobile Agents: Are They a Good Idea?
MOS '96 Selected Presentations and Invited Papers Second International Workshop on Mobile Object Systems - Towards the Programmable Internet
Mediating Negotiations in a Virtual Enterprise via Mobile Agents
AIWORC '00 Proceedings of the Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges
Information and Management
A framework for virtual enterprise operation management
Computers in Industry
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
Security: important issue in e-commerce
ICCOM'07 Proceedings of the 11th Conference on 11th WSEAS International Conference on Communications - Volume 11
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
CSCWD'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computer supported cooperative work in design III
Custom-Made Cloud Enterprise Architecture for Small Medium and Micro Enterprises
International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing
A behaviour network approach to support opportunity-based virtual enterprises in the internet
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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Virtual enterprises (VEs), in our view, are conglomerates of regular enterprises that collaborate on an ad hoc basis to carry out an inter-organisational business process. The virtual enterprise has a dynamic structure that depends on the particular process that needs to be carried out. Enterprises can join or leave the virtual enterprise at short notice, depending on the capacity and the opportunity. In recent papers, we studied the use of a mobile agent framework to support the co-ordination of the primary process in a virtual enterprise. We argued that the installation of standard software modules, called service bridges or docks, at the participant enterprises provides a suitable infrastructure for the use of mobile agents for this purpose.The deployment of mobile software agents using such modules has been studied in applications such as networked electronic trading and mediation of negotiations. The emphasis in these applications lies on demonstrating the potential of mobile agents for the support of complex decision problems. In this paper, we study the flexibility requirements an agile enterprise such as the VE imposes on its ICT support. We argue that a mobile agent-based ICT architecture will provide the required flexibility. We will discuss a number of change cases to illustrate flexibility. We examine the impact of these change cases on the requirements on the agent-agent and on the agent-system interaction.