Dual channels have become popular strategies for manufacturers due to the development of innovative selling platforms. Examples in practice also show that the lack of relationship management, such as cooperation and sharing, may cause an unsustainable supply chain performance. However, previous studies on coordination of dual-channel supply chains always focus on the contribution to profits and...

In this work, mathematical models are formulated in order to investigate the effect of additional on expected total profit a two-stage supply chain. A multi-period buyback contract between supplier and retailer under demand uncertainty is considered. Under contract, an advance submitted when unknown, can be made at beginning each period after previous realized. The impact coordination chain’s a...

The complex interactions that appear in service-oriented computing make coordination a key concern in service-oriented systems. Over the past years, the need for high-confidence coordination mechanisms has intensified as new technologies have appeared for the development of service-oriented applications, making formalization of coordination mechanisms critical. Unifying Theories of Programming ...

The recent advances in telecommunication technology, namely the wireless networks and the Internet, along with the competition of network operators for offering advanced and different services, are putting increasing pressure for building telecommunication software systems that are adaptive to new requirements and easily reconfigurable, even in run time. We show how a new modelling primitive – ...

In this paper, we present a multi-agent systems approach to distributed event data processing as it is e.g. pervasive in scientific computing environments. The matching of capability descriptions in these domains, which requires the description of constraints over streams of events, is computationally very hard. We discuss a coordination approach based on the contract net protocol in combinatio...