An intelligent framework for the cooperation in the extended enterprise environment

Abstract

The important evolution of the economic context, and of the enterprises environment, these last decades, became increasingly complex and unforeseeable. The globalization of market as well as the customer's demand have become increasingly important, hence the inability of firms to meet the inherent needs of the client with acceptable production costs. The changes of the TIC (communication and information Technologies) and their democratization, have strongly influenced the companies organization, hence the need for having strategies of co-operation between firms. The enterprise tends, by necessity, towards partnership. The concept of extended enterprise generalizes this concept of extended enterprise: system interacting with its environment of under treating, suppliers, customers, administrations. In this article, we propose Framework of intelligent co-operation within the framework of the extended enterprise by adopting the technology of multi-agent systems and of the semantic Web service.