TY - GEN
T1 - Towards an agent-based negotiation platform for cooperative decision-making in construction supply chain
AU - Xue, Xiaolong
AU - Lu, Jinfeng
AU - Wang, Yaowu
AU - Shen, Qiping
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Negotiation is an effective and popular decision-making and coordination behavior in inter-organizations systems, especially in construction supply chain (CSC) which is characterized with fragmentation, low efficiency and multiple partners. This research proposes a multi-agent based negotiation platform for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of cooperative decisionmaking in CSC adopting agent technology and regarding CSC as a typical multi-agent system. General structure of the agent based negotiation platform is designed, which includes two kinds of agent group: specialty agents and service agents. Since different members in CSC have different preferences on the decision attributes (such as cost, time, quality, safety and environment), a multi-attribute negotiation model is established by designing negotiation protocol and describing the negotiation process.
AB - Negotiation is an effective and popular decision-making and coordination behavior in inter-organizations systems, especially in construction supply chain (CSC) which is characterized with fragmentation, low efficiency and multiple partners. This research proposes a multi-agent based negotiation platform for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of cooperative decisionmaking in CSC adopting agent technology and regarding CSC as a typical multi-agent system. General structure of the agent based negotiation platform is designed, which includes two kinds of agent group: specialty agents and service agents. Since different members in CSC have different preferences on the decision attributes (such as cost, time, quality, safety and environment), a multi-attribute negotiation model is established by designing negotiation protocol and describing the negotiation process.
KW - Agent
KW - Construction supply chain
KW - Cooperative decision-making
KW - Multi-attribute negotiation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=39649093633&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783540728290
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 416
EP - 425
BT - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
T2 - 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007
Y2 - 31 May 2007 through 1 June 2007
ER -