A Framework to Develop Multi-Agent Architectures for Enterprises

Abstract

Competition in the global market demands enterprises to be agile and responsive, thus directing strategic partnerships with other agencies; this has lead to a dynamic and uncertain environment. in such a dynamic environment it is required that enterprises coordinate, cooperate and exhibit decentralized control, this can be achieved by Multi-agent architectures of information systems. the dynamic nature of the environment demands a holistic perspective to develop multi-agent architectures. Many proposed approaches to architect multi-agent architectures for enterprises fail to capture the holistic view. This paper reviews multi-agent architectures and presents a framework, using the Zachman Framework, to capture the holistic view.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Multi-agent systems; System engineering; Zachman framework

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language(s)

English

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Publication Date

01 Dec 2007

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