Establishing virtual enterprises by means of mobile agents
- 1 January 1999
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 116-123
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ride.1999.758628
Abstract
Electronic commerce is expanding from the simple notion of electronic stores to the notion of virtual enterprises (VE), where existing enterprises dynamically form temporary alliances, joining their businesses in order to share their costs, skills and resources in supporting certain activities. Two fundamental problems in VE are: (1) how a VE is established, and (2) how information is shared among the VE participants in a controlled and efficient manner. Currently, existing enterprises are using workflows to automate their operations by integrating their information systems and human resources. Thus, in this paper, we view the establishment of a VE as a problem of dynamically expanding and integrating workflows in decentralized, autonomous and interacting workflow management systems. The focus is on the idea of mobile agents called "adlets" and their use in establishing VEs that involves advertising, negotiating and exchanging control information and data as well as its management.Keywords
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