Decision Support System for Virtual Enterprise Creation

摘要

Partner selection is the core problem in the process of virtual enterprise (VE) creation. In this paper, We adopt multi-agent system for VE modeling and introduce the structure of individual agent. We focus on the decision support system (DSS) module in each agent, and propose DSS architecture of individual enterprise agents and VE coordinator agent, including their main function modules and information infrastructure. We build a set of ontology for the description of VE goal, which provides a common vocabulary for enterprise negotiation. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Technology is adopted for problem formalization, and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) is used for the'selection of optimal solution during the process of agent decision making. The conflicts in the process of partner selection are resolved through agent negotiation to achieve an optimized solution.