On the design of a mobile agent Web for supporting virtual enterprises

Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents, Aarhus, Denmark, August 27-28, 2001

“…We presented in this paper some techniques how to translate an interaction process type specified by reaction rules into a Petri net. To perform experiment with agents we are using the PROVE system (see [Szi00] and [Aer00]) that bis based on the production rule engine JESS (Java Expert System Shell). The syntax of Jess rules is almost similar with CLIPS, and the rules described in the AOR diagrams must be translated (by a rule generator linked to the AOR enabled-editor) to obtain these in the format needed by the inference engine used by the agents.…”

Flexible Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises

“…In [2] we argued that specification of agent behaviour by means of rules makes it possible to change to behaviour by changing some of the rules. Given an appropriate rule system this could perhaps even be done by the decision maker the agent has to support.…”

“…A party that wants to join a fairly volatile organisation such as a VE has a low level of commitment and should not be required to invest a lot of time and effort to be able to join. In recent papers we studied the use of a mobile agent framework [7] to support the primary process in a Virtual Enterprise [2]. We argued that the installation of standard software modules, called docks and service bridges at the participant enterprises provides a suitable infrastructure for the use of mobile agents.…”

“…In [2] it was argued that in addition to a shared interface to the customers (e.g., a Web-portal), also other services, such as a scheduling service, should be made available at the VE-Ievel, i.e., to the monitoring agent system as a whole. The scheduling service determines whether it is possible to fill the order and allocates the proper enterprises to the order.…”