Holonic enterprises are considered as one of the new types of networking organizations used to increase business efficiency. In practice this requires to introduce a new type of management stimulating the “interpreneurial” approach, active interaction between actors to make coordinated and effective decisions on resource allocation, both within the individual project team and between the teams. In this paper we propose the concept of holonic enterprise based on the principles of leadership management and describe the multi-agent system for supporting decision making to maximize productivity of knowledge based resources. The system is called “Smart Enterprise” and combines top-down project planning with real time on-line bottom-up communication with employees. This provides more coordinated, flexible and efficient resource scheduling in case of unexpected events, which are an inevitable reality when the environment changes. The functionality and architecture of Smart Enterprise system is described, and its usage of ontology and multi-agent technology is presented.
Modern aerospace enterprises tend to utilize new advantages of networking organizations for increasing business efficiency. In practice, it requires introduction of a new type of project management stimulating the self-organization and active interaction between actors in order to make coordinated and effective decisions on resource allocation, both within the individual project teams and between the teams. In this paper, we propose the concept of new project management for networking organizations and describe the multi-agent system ‘Smart Projects’ for supporting decision-making to maximize productivity and efficiency of human resources. The system supports self-organization of teams with ongoing adaptive planning and communication with employees. This provides more coordinated, flexible and efficient resource utilization in case of unexpected events. The functionality and architecture of Smart Projects system are presented. The comparison with the traditional CIPLEX solution shows that quality of multi-agent scheduler could be worse up to 15% in batch mode but it is 10 times faster and can work in adaptation mode with smart manual re-work of schedules via negotiations with team members. First results of system application show that developed system can help to increase employees work efficiency – by 10–15%, reduce efforts on tasks scheduling by 3–4 times, reduce the time of response to unexpected events by 2–3 times and increase of the percentage of enterprise projects completed within the budget and time by 15–30%. The prospects for further developments are given.
Actors, Holonic Enterprises, Ontologies and Multi-Agent Technology. HoloMAS. — 2013
Holonic enterprises are considered as one of the new types of networking organizations used to increase business efficiency. But in practice it requires to introduce a new type of management stimulating the interpreneur approach, active interaction between actors within the project teams, coordinated and effective decisions on resource scheduling in case of unpredictable events (new projects, breakdowns, delays, illnesses etc.). In the paper we propose the concept of holonic enterprise based on the principles of intersubjective management and describe Smart Enterprise system for supporting decision making for such types of enterprises. The system combines top-down project planning with real time on-line and bottom-up communication with employees. This provides more intelligent, flexible and efficient resource scheduling in case of unexpected events. The functionality and architecture of Smart Enterprise system based on the use of ontology and multi-agent technology is outlined. The first results of the system use and perspectives are analyzed.