An agent-based life cycle management for dynamic virtual enterprises

Author

Ouzounis, Vaggelis K. ; Tschammer, Volker

Author_Institution

GMD-Fokus, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

451

Lastpage

459

Abstract

Virtual enterprises (VEs) enable the deployment of distributed business processes among different partners to support shortened development and manufacturing cycles, reduced time to market, increased customer satisfaction and global operation and reach. Dynamic VEs are an emerging category of VEs, where the different partners are selected dynamically during business process execution based on market-driven criteria and negotiation. In this paper, we discuss concepts and technologies that are considered to satisfy key requirements of dynamic virtual enterprises, and propose DIVE (Dynamic Intelligent Virtual Enterprises), a framework for the specification, execution and management of shared business processes in dynamic VEs

Keywords

business data processing; formal specification; software agents; DIVE framework; agent-based life-cycle management; business partners; customer satisfaction; development cycle; distributed business process deployment; dynamic virtual enterprises; formal specification; global operations; global reach; manufacturing cycle; market-driven criteria; negotiation; shared business processes; time to market; Business communication; Collaboration; Companies; Consumer electronics; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Internet; Manufacturing automation; Time to market; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, The Sixth International Conference on, 2001

Conference_Location

London, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-660-18493-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2001.942302

Filename

942302