A Multiagent Approach for Dynamic Enterprise Partnerships

In this paper a novel approach for multiagent dynamic enterprise partnerships is introduced. Such approach makes possible to model an enterprise system as a set of agents that can be changed at run-time. This feature, makes possible to change the interaction behaviours of the agents and hence their partnerships, dynamically. We developed an infrastructure to allow agents having dynamically reconfigurable behaviours, over the Java Agent Development Framework (JADE). As an example of the application of our approach, a case study related to a virtual enterprise is presented