Agent paradigm is a technology recognized as potent tool for the 21 st century
manufacturing system. Researches are on-going in the applications of agent technology to …

Maintaining pace with ongoing changes due to digitalization is challenging for
manufacturing companies. For successful implementation of digitalization, manufacturing …

Continuously growing pressures due to the shorter development lead-time and the
uncertainty of increasingly complex market require a high flexibility from production …

Decision-making in organizations is complex due to interdependencies among decision-
makers (agents) within and across organizational hierarchies. We propose a multiscale …

This paper presents a novel approach for designing and optimizing maintenance service
contracts through the application of mechanism design theory. When offering a contract to its …

Revenue sharing is an effective mechanism for coordinating decisions in a supply chain. For
a three-stage supply chain, we explore how revenue-based incentives can be used by the …

In enterprise systems, making decisions is a complex task for agents at all levels of the
organizational hierarchy. To calculate an optimal course of action, an agent has to include …

Payment innovations that better align incentives in health care are a promising approach to
reduce health care costs and improve quality of care. Designing effective payment systems …

This paper proposed a virtual environment with agent technology to facilitate the integration
and cooperation of product maintenance process. The agent-based system framework, in …

Decision-makers in organizations and other hierarchical systems interact within and across
multiple organizational levels and take interdependent actions over time. The challenge is to …