Title
A distributed decision making model for risk management of virtual enterprise
Abstract
Risk management in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an important issue due to its agility and diversity of its members and its distributed characteristics. In this paper, we develop a risk management model for the VE. More specifically, we introduce a Distributed Decision Making (DDM) model for risk management of the VE. The model has two levels, namely, the top model and the base model, which describe the decision processes of the owner and the partners of the VE, respectively. It can be regarded as a combination of both the top–down and bottom–up approaches for risk management of the VE. Here we focus on the case of symmetry information between the owner and the partners. A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is then designed to solve the resulting optimization problem. The result shows that the proposed algorithm is effective and the two-level model can help improve the description of the relationship between the owner and the partners, which is helpful to reduce the risk of the VE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.135
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
particle swarm optimization,risk management,virtual enterprise,distributed decision making,two-level model,bottom up,optimization problem,top down
Particle swarm optimization,Data mining,Computer science,Operations research,Risk management,Distributed decision,Decision process,Optimization problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
10
Expert Systems With Applications
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.57
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Huang142371.49
Fu-Qiang Lu2214.01
Wai-Ki Ching368378.66
Tak Kuen Siu411420.25