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The increasing popularity of the “business ecosystem” concept in (business) strategy reflects that it is seen as one way to cope with increasingly dynamic and complex business environments. Nevertheless, the lack of a convincing model of a business ecosystem has led to the development of software which only give organisations a partial aid whilst neglecting their need for adaptation. Research in Multi-Agent Systems has proved to be suitable for modelling interactions among disparate sort of entities such as organisations. On the other hand, natural ecosystems continue to adapt themselves to changes in their dynamic and complex environments. In this paper, we present the Dynamic Agent-based Ecosystem Model. It combines ideas from natural ecosystems and multi-agent systems for business interactions.
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Marín, C.A., Stalker, I., Mehandjiev, N. (2007). Business Ecosystem Modelling: Combining Natural Ecosystems and Multi-Agent Systems. In: Klusch, M., Hindriks, K.V., Papazoglou, M.P., Sterling, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents XI. CIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4676. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75119-9_13
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