Knowledge based decision support system for matchmaking of enterprise competence

When faced with a fast-changing global market, an enterprise needs to understand its own competence clearly, as well as assess its competence correctly according to the market demands. This paper focuses on the matchmaking of enterprise competence with competence requests. We propose a kind of knowledge-based decision support system (DSS) for the problem of competence matchmaking, which uses a multi-agent system. Agents in the system can be requestors or providers of competence, which can take advantage of the knowledge in the competence knowledge base to settle the problem of competence matchmaking through reasoning and interaction with other agents. This DSS has the capability of automatic quantitative reasoning, as well as its knowledge-based decision support capability