This report describes the first results of Task 6.5 Brokering and Matchmaking for Efficient Management of Manufacturing Processes. The Matchmaker is a core component of the COMPOSITION Collaborative Ecosystem, providing matching of the capabilities of buyers and sellers in the supply chain as well as ranking of offers during marketplace agent negotiations.
To this end, both syntactic and semantic matching of manufacturing capabilities is applied to find the best possible supplier to fulfil a request for a service, raw materials or products involved in the supply chain.
For measuring the similarity among offers and requests, well-established weighted similarity algorithms and metrics will be used and will be further extended if needed, in order to address the objective of COMPOSITION at the best possible way. Different decision criteria for supplier selection according to several qualitative and quantitative factors will be considered (e.g. size of buyer’s organization, cost, time, distance, due date, quality, price, technical capability, financial position, past performance, attitude, flexibility, etc.). Special focus will be given in dealing with the trade-off between performance and quality of matching, in order to provide responses in a reasonable time while at the same time minimization of computational complexities will be targeted.
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