基于多AGENT的虚拟企业伙伴选择系统

Multi-Agent System for Partner Selection of Virtual Enterprise

伙伴选择是虚拟企业建立过程中的核心问题。在基于多agent的虚拟企业体系结构基础上，通过本体驱动的虚拟企业目标体系描述与分解，将虚拟企业伙伴选择问题表示为分布式约束满足和优化问题，并进一步以agent谈判的方式来求解该问题，最终得到优化的伙伴选择方案。本体驱动的虚拟企业目标描述与分解方法，为不同企业之间的谈判提供了通用词汇；用分布式约束满足和优化的方法对问题进行形式化描述，可以为企业之间的谈判提供论域和决策支持。分布式约束满足和优化方法的应用，为解决虚拟企业伙伴选择问题提供了一种新思路。

Partner selection is the core problem in the process of virtual enterprise (VE) creation. this paper proposesmulti-agent architecture for VE partner selection. We build a set of VE ontology to represent VE goal in a formal andrigorous way thus VE partner selection is formulized as a Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP). The problem is solved through agent negotiation and an optimized solution is achieved finally. The VE ontology provides a common vocabulary for enterprise negotiation. The formulation of partner selection as DCSP specifies the domain of agentnegotiation and facilitates decision support. The application of DCSP and optimization presents a new vision for VEpartner selection.