Anagent-based supply-chain management

This paper proposes atddescribes aprototype ofanagentbased infrastructure tosupport thesupply chain managemen1t ofavirtual enterprise. A virtlual enterprise iscomtiposed ofauitotnomous, distribt.ited, andcontinuolusly evolvinig enitities, therefore wehavenaturally modelled eachbusiniess entiti w!ith ani agetnt platform. Eachagent canplay several roles according tothetask tofuilfill. Tothis end, we applv suchanapproach toavirtual storehouse scenario.