Integrating Mobile Agent Infrastructures in Operational ERP Systems

In this paper we present our most recent work carried out in the wider context of the IST-ADRENALIN project, to facilitate formation and lifecycle management of networked enterprises. The projects focus is in designing and building an execution “kernel” for mobile agent applications written in Java, using the Aglets platform and integrating it with any existing ERP system. For integrating mobile agent infrastructures in operational ERP systems, we developed a generic model, which we call Mobile Agent Model, and which encompasses two parts concerning the Agent Logic and the Agent Proprietary Data, analysed in more detail in this paper. This model is branch independent and builds on the Adrenalin Company concept, where the fractal and the Information supply chain concepts are combined, introducing that every process, activity and resource can be defined with the “triangle” of executor – controller co-ordinator tasks, supporting characteristics of self-similarity, self-organisation, self-optimisation and dynamic organisational behaviour.