Title :
Supplier performance in a digital ecosystem
Author :
Fabregues, Angela ; Madrenas-Ciurana, Jordi ; Sierra, Carles ; Debenham, John
Author_Institution :
IIIA (Inst. d´´Investigacio en Intelligencia Artificial), UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
Abstract :
Autonomous entities in a digital ecosystem are expected to interact, negotiate and make agreements. The work introduced in this paper focuses on how these autonomous entities evaluate and rank the other participants in the digital ecosystem using past experiences. These past experiences allow agents to learn a probabilistic model of the behaviour of the others. We introduce a trust measure based on this probabilistic model of behaviour and a software tool that helps in the decision making process of how to choose the right partner for our next agreement.
Keywords :
decision support systems; software agents; software tools; supply chain management; agents past experience; autonomous entity; behaviour probabilistic model; decision making process; digital ecosystem; software tool; supplier performance; trust measure; Companies; Context modeling; Councils; Ecosystems; Humans; Information technology; Ontologies; Software tools; Solid modeling; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2009. DEST '09. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2345-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2346-0
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2009.5276775
