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Although cooperation is the fundamental characteristic of Virtual Enterprise (VE) concept, due to its distributed environment and the autonomous and heterogeneous nature of the VE members, cooperation can only be succeed if a proper management of dependencies between activities is in place just like SCM. In this paper, we focus on negotiation process in VE formulation as a basic research to clarify the effective management for VE. Each enterprise in VE is defined as agent with multi-utilities and a framework of multi-agent paradigm with reinforcement learning algorithm, named Q-Learning, is newly proposed as an adaptive negotiation algorithm amongst the agents. We develop a computer simulation model to form VE through multiple negotiations amongst several potential members in the negotiation domain, and finally clarify the formulation dynamism on the negotiation process with adaptive behaviour.
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- Negotiation Process
- Virtual Organization
- Virtual Enterprise
- Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
- Negotiation Mechanism
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Kaihara, T., Fujii, S. (2004). Partnering Mechanism with Adaptive Multi-Agent Protocol for Virtual Enterprise. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations. PRO-VE 2003. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 134. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35704-1_43
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