A concept for supporting the formation of virtual corporations through negotiation

Author

Kötting, Boris ; Maurer, Frank

Author_Institution

Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

47

Abstract

This paper describes a system that supports software development processes in virtual software corporations. A virtual software corporation consists of a set of enterprises that cooperate in projects to fulfill customer needs. Contracts are negotiated in the whole lifecycle of a software development project. The negotiations really influence the performance of a company. Therefore, it is useful to support negotiations and planning decisions with software agents. Our approach integrates software agent approaches for negotiation support with flexible multiserver workflow engines

Keywords

contracts; negotiation support systems; project support environments; software agents; software houses; workflow management software; customer needs; flexible multiserver workflow engines; negotiation; negotiation support; software agents; software development processes; software development project; virtual corporations; virtual software corporations; Central office; Collaboration; Companies; Contracts; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Engines; Information technology; Programming; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1999. (WET ICE '99) Proceedings. IEEE 8th International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0365-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1999.805173

Filename

805173