caa a22 4500 475778367 CHVBK 20180406123637.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008195614074 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008195614074 Agent-Oriented Supply-Chain Management [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Fox, Mihai Barbuceanu, Rune Teigen] The supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, and delivered to customers. In recent years, a new software architecture for managing the supply chain at the tactical and operational levels has emerged. It views the supply chain as composed of a set of intelligent software agents, each responsible for one or more activities in the supply chain and each interacting with other agents in the planning and execution of their responsibilities. This paper investigates issues and presents solutions for the construction of such an agent-oriented software architecture. The approach relies on the use of an agent building shell, providing generic, reusable, and guaranteed components and services for communicative-act-based communication, conversational coordination, role-based organization modeling, and others. Using these components, we show two nontrivial agent-based supply-chain architectures able to support complex cooperative work and the management of perturbation caused by stochastic events in the supply chain. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 software agents nationallicence coordination nationallicence interaction nationallicence supply chain nationallicence Fox Mark Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Barbuceanu Mihai Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Teigen Rune Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/2-3(2000-04-01), 165-188 0920-6299 12:2-3<165 2000 12 10696 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008195614074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008195614074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fox Mark Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barbuceanu Mihai Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Teigen Rune Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/2-3(2000-04-01), 165-188 0920-6299 12:2-3<165 2000 12 10696 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer