Supporting the Creation of Virtual Enterprises Using Mobile Agents

In this paper we present a semi-automated process of brokerage for a cluster of mould and die industries located in the south of Brazil, called TECHMOLDES. This process is represented by a multi-agent-based decision support system that helps a human-broker in the selection of the group of enterprises within TECHMOLDES which better fits a given business opportunity. This work applies mobile agents to treat information about the cluster. The agents visits each enterprise that are capable of participating in the business, takes the bids from each one, and utilizes this information to generate a set of possible Virtual Enterprises for each business opportunity.