Agent-based service-oriented collaborative architecture for value chains of SMEs

Predictions for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to deliver transformational results to the role and capabilities of IT for businesses have fallen short. Unforeseen challenges have often emerged in SOA adoption. They fall into two categories: technical issues stemming from service components reuse difficulties and organizational issues stemming from inadequate support or understanding of what is required from the executive management in an organization to facilitate the technical rollout. This paper first explores and analyses the hindrances to the full exploitation of SOA. It then proposes an alternative service delivery approach that is based on even a higher degree of loose coupling than SOA. The approach promotes knowledge services and agent-based support for integration and identification of services. To support the arguments, this chapter sketches as a proof of concept the operationalization of such a service delivery system in disaster management.

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Value chains of Road Freight Transport operations: An agent-based modelling proposal

Procedia Computer Science ◽

10.1016/j.procs.2019.04.104 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 151 ◽

pp. 769-775

Author(s):

Aitor Salas ◽

Blanca Cases ◽

Juan Carlos García Palomares

Keyword(s):

Freight Transport ◽

Value Chains ◽

Agent Based ◽

Agent Based Modelling ◽

Road Freight

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The Behavior Simulation of Manufacturing Services in a Service-Oriented Networked Manufacturing Environment

Volume 3: Manufacturing Equipment and Systems ◽

10.1115/msec2017-2807 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jingbo Wang ◽

Ping Lou ◽

Xuemei Jiang ◽

Qin Wei ◽

YongZhi Qu

Keyword(s):

Bipartite Network ◽

Networked Manufacturing ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

Agent Based ◽

Behavior Simulation ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Geographically Distributed ◽

The Cost ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

In a service-oriented networked manufacturing (SONM) environment, geographically distributed manufacturing resources are encapsulated as various manufacturing services. These manufacturing services release via the Internet and can provide services on the demand of manufacturing tasks. Usually one manufacturing task needs several different services belonged to different organizers to work together. Hence, effective cooperation among services is the foundation of the efficient operation of SONM. In this paper, a bipartite network model is presented to describe the relationship of two different kinds of nodes in SONM, and also is projected as a weighed network for further exploring the behaviors of service nodes. Furthermore, an agent-based model is built for modeling the interactive behaviors of service nodes in a cooperative network and an agent-based simulating system is developed with Repast. The simulation results show that the emergence of cooperative behaviors among service nodes is related to both the cost of cooperation and initial trust of services in the SONM environment.

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