TY - CHAP
T1 - Flexible decision support in a dynamicbusiness network
AU - Collins, John
AU - Ketter, Wolfgang
AU - Gini, Maria L
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We present the design of a service oriented architecture which facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic business networks. We have implemented and tested this architecture in the MinneTAC trading agent, which is designed to compete in the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (Collins et al., 1998). Our design enables managers to break out decision behaviors into separate, configurable components, and allows dynamic construction of analysis and modeling tools from small, single-purpose evaluator services. The result of our design is that the network can easily be configured to test a new theory and analyze the impact of various approaches to different aspects of the agent's decision processes, such as procurement, sales, production, and inventory management. Additionally we describe visualizers that allow managers to see and manipulate the configuration of the network, and to construct economic dashboards that can display the current and historical state of any node in the network.
AB - We present the design of a service oriented architecture which facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic business networks. We have implemented and tested this architecture in the MinneTAC trading agent, which is designed to compete in the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (Collins et al., 1998). Our design enables managers to break out decision behaviors into separate, configurable components, and allows dynamic construction of analysis and modeling tools from small, single-purpose evaluator services. The result of our design is that the network can easily be configured to test a new theory and analyze the impact of various approaches to different aspects of the agent's decision processes, such as procurement, sales, production, and inventory management. Additionally we describe visualizers that allow managers to see and manipulate the configuration of the network, and to construct economic dashboards that can display the current and historical state of any node in the network.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:70449456176
SN - 9783540855804
SP - 233
EP - 248
BT - The Network Experience
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ER -