Enterprise Agents Solving Conflicts: Thecobac Approach

Autonomous agents seem to be a promising approach for application in computermediated supply webs. Supporting the management and integration of the planning, scheduling, and controlling processes they can be used as "enterprise delegates". However, this leads to a problem with common autonomous agent architectures, as they are not designed to model complex decision behavior of entire companies. In this paper we present an innovative approach to model Intelligent Agents in the context of the new agent architecture “Enterprise Agents”, which is using conflicts of interests explicitly to determine agent’s behavior and discuss its application to eBusiness.