The Coordination Mechanism Of Multi-agent Based Virtual Enterprise

With the rapid development of science and manufacture technology, both production and competition appear obviously an internationalization trend. The demand of production from marketplace becomes of diversification and customization day by day, which makes the production's lifecycle shorter and shorter. Enterprises must do some renovation to adapt to this customized and changeful market demand. Virtual enterprise is thought to be the most challengeable organization and operation model of 21st century in the challengeable and cooperating market environment.This article does some research on the mechanism of multi-agent based virtual enterprise, gives an introduction of the concept of virtual enterprise and agent technology, puts forward an architecture constructed upon multi-agent technology, which supports the whole lifecycle of virtual enterprise, studies fields of partner selection and agent coordination mechanism of virtual enterprise under this architecture. According to the demand of partner selection, this article introduces dynamically programming method to extend the partner selection model of AHP, describing the mechanism of the operating stage of virtual enterprise by using logical deduction, resolving the problem of data representation and exchanging in the heterogeneous system of virtual enterprise, probing into the principle and method of prototype system construction by using JADE, and makes an prospect of the researching fields in the end.