Partner selection in a virtual enterprise under uncertain information about candidates |
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| Authors: | Bin Huang Chenghui Gao Liang Chen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China;2. Digital Design Center for Manufacturing of Fujian Province, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China;1. Department of Hydraulic Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China;2. Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan;3. Sichuan University – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610207, China;4. Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;5. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;6. First Crust Deformation Monitoring and Application Center, CEA, Tianjin 300180, China;7. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China;1. Texas A&M University, 4243 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA;2. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA;3. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA;4. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA;1. Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823, USA;2. College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;1. Collaborative Autonomic Computing Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China;2. The Israel Electric Corporation, P. O. Box 10, Haifa 31000, Israel;3. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA |
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| Abstract: | Partner selection is a major issue in the formation of a virtual enterprise. In practice, in the partner selection process, the information about the candidates and their performances are incomplete and uncertain. Vague sets theory is one of the methods used to deal with uncertain information. In this paper, a new method based on vague sets is proposed to deal with the partner selection problem in the formation of a virtual enterprise while the factors of satisfaction degree, due date, cost and the precedence of tasks are taken into account. On the basis of the agreement index of satisfaction degree, the formulated partner selection problems are interpreted so as to maximize the minimum agreement index. To solve the problem, an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed. Finally, the simulation of a numerical example demonstrates that the method is effective. |
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