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@InCollection{Collins_SBNi08,
  author =   "John Collins and Wolfgang Ketter and Maria Gini",
  title =    "Flexible Decision Support in a Dyanmic Business Network",
  editor =     "Peter Vervest, Li Zheng, and Diederik van Liere",
  booktitle = "The Network Factor - 
               Edited Volume of the 3rd Smart Business Network Conference",
  abstract = {" We present the design of a service oriented architecture which
  facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic
  business networks. We have implemented and tested this architecture in the
  MinneTAC trading agent, which is designed to compete in the
  Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition.
  Our design enables managers to break out decision behaviors into
  separate, configurable components,
  and allows dynamic construction of analysis and modeling tools
  from small, single-purpose ``evaluator'' services.
  The result of our design is that the network can easily be
  configured to test a new theory and analyze the
  impact of various approaches to different elements of the agent's
  decision processes, such as procurement, sales,
  production, and inventory management. Additionally we describe
  visualizers that allow managers to see and manipulate the configuration of
  the network, and to construct economic dashboards that can display the
  current and historical state of any node (business unit) in the network."},
  publisher =    "Springer Verlag",
  wwwnote = {BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER at the 3rd Smart Business Network Conference, Beijing, China, May 2008.},
  year =      2008,
  bib2html_pubtype = {Book Chapter},
  bib2html_rescat = {Trading Agents: Smart Business Networks},
}