An agent-based framework for cross-domain cooperation of virtual enterprise

Researchers on virtual enterprise cooperation have tried to implement the cross-domain cooperation and inner-domain cooperation of virtual enterprise using an identical method. Based on the analysis of why agent-based mechanism is suitable and only suitable for cross-domain cooperation of virtual enterprise, we propose a framework to implement it. In our framework, there is a service information Supply-Demand Center (SDC) which is in charge of service information management and agent is responsible for cooperative partner selecting before cooperation and interaction during cooperation. The relevant key strategies and basic interaction models are also described. Finally, application of the framework in ECCS (e-commerce based cooperative system) and Webflow - which are our two workflow-based cooperative systems - is introduced.