Title: E-procurement in catalogue based
E-marketplace
by Multi Agent Approach
Abstract: The
research
presented in this paper proposes an innovative agent-based approach for
planning
and negotiation in catalogue based e-marketplace. In e-marketplace,
production
planning tools allow creating a link between commercialization and
production
activities providing a better service for the customer and for the
supplier.
On the other hand, negotiation tools allow making transactions able to
take
into account buyer’s and seller’s identities and goals, providing a
better
global satisfaction. The paper proposed an approach based on a single
round
among customer and suppliers to reach an agreement. The purposes of
this
approach are to reduce the time to reach an agreement and to reduce the
behavior
information to set for the agents. A discrete event simulation
environment
has been developed in order to test the proposed approach. The
performance
of the proposed approach are compared with a negotiation approach as a
benchmark.
The simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the
negotiation
approach.
Author: Paolo
Renna