Authors: Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis K Labrou, and R. Scott Cost

Book Title: Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce

Date: July 01, 1999

Abstract: A supply chain is a network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers, through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, produced and delivered to the customer. A supply chain management system (SCMS) manages the cooperation of these system components. In the computational world, roles of individual entities in a supply chain can be implemented as distinct agents. The functions and procedures of a company in the real market are complicated and include information collection, policy making and actions. Therefor, it is impossible to describe software agent behaviors for an uncertain e-commerce environment such as supply chain management in the traditional single threaded model. To solve the problem, we introduce the concept of negotiation into software agent design for supply chain management and present our ideas to solve the problem of communication and decision-making for negotiating agents.

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: AAAI Press

Note: (extended abstract)

Tags: negotation. supply chain, ecommerce, agent

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