The research proposes an agent based approach, properly linked to production planning
activities, able to support negotiation in catalogue based e-marketplace. In this context …

The e-marketplace in Business To Business applications allows enterprises to make
economic transactions in a virtual marketplace. Often Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) …

Despite the positive expectations and although they are nowadays considered the most
spread Business to Business (B2B) solution, e-marketplaces are still far from representing a …

Mass customization and global competition push enterprises to adopt proper business
models able to capture all the opportunities arising from emerging competition rules. An …

Cloud computing represents a fundamentally new trend in the information technology (IT)
industry. Especially the practical benefits and the company-specific use cases have become …

The e-business scenario, generally speaking, can be considered as an opportunity for
enterprises to extend their market to a wide region. Moreover, Multi-agent Systems (MASs) …

Today marketplaces are characterized by a high degree of dynamism where companies
need to operate by matching agility and efficiency. Supply Chain Management has become …

The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) allowed the
enterprises to adopt an e-marketplace approach to Business to Business (B2B) applications …

Distributed production networks are considered organizational structures able to match
agility and efficiency necessary to compete in the global market. Performances of such …

This chapter presents the Agent-Based Architecture developed to support the “added value
tools” in a neutral linear e-marketplace. The architecture will be described from three points …