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These days, organisations must adapt to business and technical changes which are vital in a competitive and ever-changing business environment. To meet the dynamically changing requirements, virtual organisation is widely recognised as an effective solution. Multiple agent technology has been actively discussed and recognised as the merit of flexibility and adaptability. Thus, this technology can be applied to virtual organisations. To prevent from being impeded by using incongruous approaches to designing agent-based systems, systematic approach is essential to incorporate a variety of organisation business units that are required to meet current and future needs. This paper aims to present a systematic approach including process of analysis and design to designing virtual organisations. It also demonstrates a case study for application of this approach.

To respond to the challenge of global economic competition, manufacturers are searching for ways to bring high-quality products, system, and structures into being in response to established needs. Simultaneously, as cost is a key factor among many physical and social factors to determine the success of a product, they attempt to reduce costs during every phase of the product's life cycle. The major obstacle for LCC models is data gathering from a highly distributed heterogeneous environment with a huge number of information sources. This paper presents a system analysis approach to design agents for information gathering for CAS A model that is one of popular LCC models.