A Concept for Supporting the Formation of Virtual Corporations through Negotiation

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 Virtual Software Corporation, Distributed Software Development, Process support, Internet, Workflow Replication, Software Agents, Contract net

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: WETICE
• Authors: Boris Kötting, Frank Maurer
• Keywords: Emerging Technology, Software, Software Development, Virtual Software Corporation, WETICE 1999