dc.contributor.author |
Musumba, George Wamamu |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wamuyu, Patrick Kanyi |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-12-13T11:08:38Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-12-13T11:08:38Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-03 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
10.4018/IJATS.2016010103 |
en_US |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://41.89.227.156:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/666 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article describes changing customer demands require that enterprises mobilize their resources
to quickly develop a suitable product. This is achievable if competing enterprises collaborate to
deliver the product. Each of them brings their expertise into the collaboration. This collaboration
where each enterprise brings in its core competency is referred to as a virtual enterprise (VE). A
construction project is implemented by a team of professionals and an alliance of companies that is
formed by consultants who evaluate contractors for specific project tasks. Partners can be represented
as multiple agents. Prior evidence of multi-agent system (MAS) model that facilitates formation of
VEs is lacking. VE MAS ontology has been designed and used in agent interactions. The model
can be used in evaluation and selection process of partners. Delegation of the process to the model,
gives partners time to implement the tasks. Partner evaluation and selection problem for building
construction projects is solvable if pragmatic scientific approaches are employed with appropriate
mathematical models. This article proposed a VE model for evaluating and selecting right partners for
building construction projects. The model was used to demonstrate the choice of the most preferred
partner. Researchers have not evaluated this model but propose that once in place, it can evaluated
against manual selection of potential partners using similar parameters by examining the closeness
of the output. |
en_US |
dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems |
en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Volume 8;Issue 1 |
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dc.subject |
Java Agent Development Environment (JADE), Multi Agent Systems (MAS), Ontology, Partners Evaluation and Selection Problem (PESP), Virtual Enterprise (VE) |
en_US |
dc.title |
Virtual Enterprise as a Multi Agent System |
en_US |
dc.type |
Book |
en_US |