Analysis on Evolution of E-Business Ecosystem

Abstract

As an important mechanism in the evolution process of E-business ecosystem, not only does the competition and cooperation among service agents affect the development of individual agent, but also influences stability of the whole ecosystem. However, the current researches mainly rely on data statistics and qualitative analysis due to time cost and cost constraints. This research status further results in difficulties in clearly identifying the links between micro actions of service agents and macro evolution process of E-business ecosystem and predicting some factors at macro level. In order to change such a situation, this paper proposes a model mapping-based computational experiment approach to analyze the evolution of E-business ecosystem, including model construction of real world, model mapping of computational system, and construction of experiment system. Then, several case studies are conducted to present the application of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that our approach has a substantial promise.