Globalisation is pushing markets and enterprises to abandon their traditional product centrism and focus instead their efforts into their own specialisation fields, maintaining networks of supply chains that are able to fulfil their needs towards the development of complete solutions. In that vision, given the heterogeneity of these global collaborations and the constant demand for change, innovation, and compliance to more exigent rules and the adoption and definition of standards, it becomes very difficult for enterprises to cope with the pace of change. This paper proposes the effort to develop a standard implementation of a framework based on agents and rules to achieve solid and stable integration of solutions using proven standards, via the use of a strong and formal negotiation mechanism. Negotiation will be the basis for increasing enterprise interoperability in the supply chain, proposing this as means for standardising an approach for developing interoperability solutions.

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agents technology,interoperability solutions,rules engine technology,Standardisation Tools

• Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences