Negotiation Policies for E-Procurement by Multi Agent Systems
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The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is deeply changing the way to do business for several manufacturing companies. Especially, Business-to-Business (B2B) applications are demonstrating the capacity to provide real value to manufacturing industries by allowing industry global performance to increase. According to Rangone et al. (2004) a basic classification of B2B solutions can concern their business model focus; indeed is possible to classify B2B solutions in those that are procurement oriented, and those that are supply chain oriented. This chapter focuses on procurement oriented solutions, that support the company in procurement transactions. These solutions are essentially referred as e-marketplace. Several definitions of e-marketplace (EM) have been provided in the literature from 1998. However, a basic definition has been proposed by Grieger ABSTRACT
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