A virtual enterprise is composed of distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous components and therefore, could be mapped into a multi-agent system (MAS). Moreover, the coordination and distributed problem solving that arise in a VE can be solved by MAS technology. The paper presents a generic agent-based model of a virtual enterprise, and highlights the main advantages and disadvantages of such ...

Introduction In a heterogeneous multiagent system it can be useful to have knowledge about the different types of agents in the system. Agent modeling develops agent models based on interactions between agents, then predicts agent actions. This approach is effective in small domains but does not scale well. We develop an approach where an agent can learn using an abstract model identification o...

The management of resources in the grid environments is complex as they are heterogeneous and geographically distributed. This paper proposes an effective resource management using the mobile agent method among distributed resources. In this paper, we discuss a Mobile-Agent-Based Grid Resource Management Model (MGRMM). In this model, resources will be deployed like commodity exchange and the te...

– We present a model of an adaptive software agent. An agent implementing the model is capable of adjusting itself to different environments that may have features new to the agent. We explicate some of the properties we feel are useful for adaptability. The basic adaptability features could be abstracted to virtually any kind of agent—artificial or living one—that acts in heterogeneous environ...

An agent-based simulation model representing a theory of the dynamic processes involved in innovation in modern knowledge-based industries is described. The agent-based approach allows the representation of heterogeneous agents that have individual and varying stocks of knowledge. The simulation is able to model uncertainty, historical change, effect of failure on the agent population, and agen...