Abstract: The main goal of the paper is to convince that agent orientation may be considered as a powerful paradigm for organization modeling and the reference architecture for Management Information Systems, that if properly applied, would lead to firm’s overall performance improvement. The scenario of proving these theses consists of three steps. Firstly the basic concepts of agency have been defined. Then the agent and multi-agent system are presented as playing the roles of very natural and intuitive modeling constructs and complexity management tools. Finally the benefits of agent oriented software application are described from the perspective of gaining competitive advantage by improving intra- and interorganizational efficiency due to basic characteristics of agents such as constant monitoring of the environment (where they are situated), reactivity, proactiveness and social ability.

Keywords: Software Agent, Intelligent Agent, Agent Oriented Approach, Organization Modeling, Multi-agent System, Complexity Management, Business Performance Improvement, Supply Chain, Demand Chain, Management Information Management System

ACM Classification Keywords: I. Computing Methodologies; I.2 Artificial IOntelligence I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence; Multiagent systems

Link:

AGENT ORIENTATION AS A TOOLBOX FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MODELING AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Jacek Jakieła, Bartosz Pomianek

http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-13/ibs-13-p16.pdf