Improvement in the distribution of services in multi-agent systems with SCODA

Abstract

The distribution of services on multi-agent systems allows it to reduce to the agents their computational load. The functionality of the system does not reside in the agents themselves, however it is ubiquitously distributed so that allows you to perform tasks in parallel avoiding an additional computational cost to the elements in the system. The distribution of services that offers SCODA (Distrib-uted and Specialized Agent Communities) allows an intelligent management of these services provided by agents of the system and the parallel execution of threads that allow to respond to requests asynchronously, which implies an improvement in the performance of the system at both the computational level as the level of quality of service in the control of these services. The comparison carried out in the case of study that is presented in this paper demonstrates the existing improvement in the distribution of services on systems based on SCODA.

Supply Chain Service Quality Improvement by E-marketplace Automation

“…There is a moderate number of articles concerning QoS and agents. Research mainly focuses on QoS of the agents themselves, as distribution of services in agents is reducing the computational load, affecting the quality of service of agents [28], or study decentralized mechanisms that assist in the negotiation of quantitative service-level agreements in multiagent systems [29].…”

“…According to [11], automation of supply chain management systems has long been a principal use of both academia and industry. In general, two approaches of service transformation in the digital era can be observed for efficient, service-quality-oriented supply chain management: 1) Centralized e-marketplace web portals, combining demand and supply in a temporally and spatially shared repository [12,13], and 2) Decentralized, agent-based e-marketplaces with a yellow-page dictionary service and distributed network of temporally and spatially distributed agents of supply chain partners [14,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. E-marketplaces have become an essential part of e-commerce.…”