The simulation of service supply chain formation based on mobile agent's searching

Abstract

In E-Commerce, end consumers and service suppliers can find the services they needed through the searching of mobile agents (MA). So the suppliers can disassemble the service requests of consumers into the subrequests. Then suppliers respond the subrequests cooperatively. Thus the service supply chain (SSC) can be built up. But the existing bottom-up and up-bottom supply chain formation fashions cannot be adapted to the distributed environment of E-Commerce. So we do some researches on the simulation of SSC formation based on MA 's searching. We describe the service relationship among consumers and suppliers with task dependency network. We study the influence on the formation of SSC caused by the quantities of MA and its variety in number