Partner Selection Based on Extended Contract Net and Hybrid Reasoning

To hold market chances by building cooperation alliance across enterprises, partner selection approach based on extended contract net and partner evaluation based on hybrid reasoning were proposed respectively. On the foundation of partner classification, partner selection approach based on extended contract net, which introduced roles of candidate-successful-contractors / pre-successful-contractors, hybrid reasoning, time-bound framework, etc., was built up. Applying the thought of case-based reasoning into partner selection, evaluation process and similarity computation based on hybrid reasoning, in which case-based reasoning is primary and rule-based reasoning is subsidiary, were proposed. Finally, an intelligent decision support system for partner selection based on extended contract net and hybrid reasoning was designed and developed in the framework of J2EE and Struts.