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John Collins, Wolfgang Ketter,
and Maria Gini. Flexible Decision Support in a Dynamic Business Network. In Peter
Vervest, Li Zheng, and Diederik van Liere, editors, The Network Factor -
Edited Volume of the 3rd Smart Business Network Conference, Springer Verlag, 2008.
BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER
at the 3rd Smart Business Network Conference, Beijing, China, May 2008.
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" 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."
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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."},
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