Supporting virtual enterprise systems using agent coordination

Voltage Coordination of FACTS Devices in Power Systems Using RL-Based Multi-Agent Systems

This paper describes how multi-agent system technology can be used as the underpinning platform for voltage control in power systems. In this study, some FACTS (flexible AC transmission systems) devices are properly designed to coordinate their decisions and actions in order to provide a coordinated secondary voltage control mechanism based on multi-agent theory. Each device here is modeled as ...

Supporting Life Cycle Coordination in Open Agent Systems

Coordination mechanisms need the proper support if they are to function within large-scale, heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This paper presents a life cycle model for mobile agents in which a number of different states and transitions are defined. An agent’s state can be used to provide coordination mechanisms with useful status information, enabling these mechanisms to deal with realistic s...

The Agent - Based Virtual Enterprise

A virtual enterprise is composed of distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous components and therefore, could be mapped into a multi-agent system (MAS). Moreover, the coordination and distributed problem solving that arise in a VE can be solved by MAS technology. The paper presents a generic agent-based model of a virtual enterprise, and highlights the main advantages and disadvantages of such ...

Supporting Multi-agent Coordination and Computational Collective Intelligence in Enterprise 2.0 Platform

Supporting Coordination in Dynamic Virtual Enterprises

Dynamic virtual enterprises (VE) involve rapid, on-demand, teaming of business partners in pursuit of specific business objectives defined by the customer. Current literature confirms the need for new coordination structures and tools to be used to support management of a shared business process in these emerging forms of organisations. The main objectives of this paper are to investigate coord...