Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Relating Quantified Motivations for Organizationally Situated Agents
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Multi-agent simulation of firms and organizational forms
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Inter-organizational networks as patterns for self-organizing multiagent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
OAR: a formal framework for multi-agent negotiation
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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Virtual organization refers to the temporary teaming of enterprises. To realize this new generation of business model, the ability to form and operate virtual organization is very important. The paper describes our experience gained by implementing a multi-agent system that simulates an artificial marketplace, from which we have derived several decision-making mechanisms in various stages of a virtual organization. A negotiation protocol and a bid selection algorithm are developed for agents to form a virtual organization. MQ framework is adopted to support the agent's local reasoning process. In order to better understand the organizational problem, we adapt a statistical model that predicts the expected rewards of individual agents and the performance of the virtual organization. The comparison and analysis of the results from both the simulation and the model prediction are also presented in this paper.