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The increasingly complex and dynamic nature of contemporary markets demands that a business engages in an ongoing dialogue with all aspects of its environment, including other cooperative and competitive businesses. Whilst the concept of a business ecosystem captures the essence of such a domain, the lack of a convincing software architecture for its support has resulted in solutions which only partially leverages the potential of the forementioned concept. In this paper, we present an architecture for a business ecosystem supporting application based on Dynamic Agent-based Ecosystem Model (DAEM:) a novel and promising approach to support business ecosystems and their adaptation capabilities where the environment plays an identifiable mediating role.
C.A.M. thanks the support provided by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) through sponsorship No. 197297/218103; this work was supported in part by the European Commission under the research project SMEs Undertaking Design of Dynamic Ecosystem Networks (SUDDEN) through contract No. 035169.
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Marín, C.A., Stalker, I., Mehandjiev, N. (2008). Engineering Business Ecosystems Using Environment-Mediated Interactions. In: Weyns, D., Brueckner, S.A., Demazeau, Y. (eds) Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems. EEMMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8_16
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