Agent Based Multi-attribute Negotiation for Large-Scale Construction Project Supply Chain Coordination

Author

Xiaolong Xue ; Yaowu Wang ; Qiping Shen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Constr. & Real Estate, Harbin Inst. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

Dec. 2006

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

534

Abstract

This research designs a multi-agent based multiattribute negotiation framework for large-scale construction projects (LCP) supply chain coordination (SCC) through adopting the agent technology and regarding supply chain as a typical multi-agent system. Since different members in the supply chain have different preferences on the decision attributes (such as cost, time, quality, safety and environment), a multi-attribute negotiation mechanism is established by constructing the multi-attribute negotiation model, describing the negotiation process, and designing negotiation protocol. Finally, a prototype system is developed and tested on a hypothetical LCP. The experiment indicates that the negotiation mechanism can solve problems in LCP supply chain and provides a solution to LCP SCC

Keywords

construction; multi-agent systems; negotiation support systems; supply chain management; decision attributes; large-scale construction project supply chain coordination; multi-agent based multiattribute negotiation; negotiation protocol; Buildings; Costs; Large-scale systems; Multiagent systems; Process design; Project management; Safety; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, 2006. WI-IAT 2006 Workshops. 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2749-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.30

Filename

4053307