Multi-agent enterprise sustainability performance measurement system
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Tarih
2010
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Sustainability grounds the development debate in a global framework, within which a continuous satisfaction of human needs constitute the ultimate goal. When transposing this idea to the business level, corporate sustainability can accordingly be defined as meeting the needs of a firm's direct and indirect stakeholders without compromising its ability to meet the needs of future stakeholders as well. Based on the definition of corporate sustainability, the goal of sustainable development is to integrate the economic, social and ecological impacts of our patterns of production and consumption into forms of development that are designed for long-term sustainability. But for the transition to sustainability, performance must be assessed, which has posed important challenges to the researchers in providing efficient but reliable tools. A number of principles, tools and reporting formats have emerged, some of which are adopted by corporations to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable development. In the context of sustainability measurement and management, to the extent of our knowledge, no study has been performed to develop an agent based or multi agent integrated decision making tool that can meet organizational needs at the decision making level. Given the characteristics of a typical agent system and system requirements for today's organizational sustainability assessment, it is concluded that a multi-agent based system can be a useful tool in such environments to put together a coordinated workflow of collaborating agents. In this research, considering the need for multi-agent approach in the context of sustainability assessment, a multi-agent system with integrated multi-criteria tools is developed to measure, compare and communicate the sustainability performances of an organization. The proposed system is designed consistent with the fact that no uniform agreed multi-criteria methodology exists for aggregation of composite indicators for sustainability evaluation. Therefore, in this study, several multi-criteria methods are used simultaneously instead of selecting the best method for the situation. To test the proposed methodology, data obtained from a grocery retailer is used. Finally, discussion, implications and some concluding remarks are provided.
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Sustainability, Multi-agent System, Multi-criteria Decision, Performance Analysis
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Agent-Based Computing
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