Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Systems – ICMaS

Published by Editura Academiei Române, ISSN 1842-3183

Volume No. 1,  2006

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing Systems Department

Bucharest, Romania, 26 – 27 October, 2006

Abstract: The paper presents some trends and approaches in the management of virtual enterprises, by using intelligent multi-agents systems. The trends are presented under impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) on the development of the world economy, as knowledge based economy, or digital economy. The VE concept is considered one of the business models developed in last years under the influence of the globalisation on manufacturing and competition. Mainly, are underlined the  trends in approaching manufacturing and new business models, particularly VE, and some of the problems and solutions in the management of this kind of enterprises. For that, are presented automated negotiation methods for implementing the complex business process of coordination, strategies, and partner selection in the VE, using the integration of multi-agent platform with an expert system shell, and rules based language.

Ph.D., MEEng, Marius GURAN, Professor, "Politehnica"

University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing

Department, E-mail: mguran@mix.mmi.pub.ro