TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling the formation of virtual buying cooperatives with grammars of regulated rewriting
AU - Bensch, Suna
AU - Ewert, Sigrid
AU - Raborife, Mpho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this paper we model virtual buying cooperatives (VBC) with grammars of regulated rewriting and show that, if VBC relevant information is distributed over several successive VBC processes and must, in a later stage, be synchronised and co-ordinated, the formal grammar needs to be very powerful with respect to mode of derivation and thus generative capacity. In particular, we show how to model the supplier phase, invitation phase, and declaration phase of a VBC with random permitting context grammars and the VBC reservation phase with random context grammars under a special kind of leftmost derivation. If we use random permitting context grammars for all processes, we can only model a VBC formation during which information is introduced and processed locally and successively rather than being spread over different VBC processes.
AB - In this paper we model virtual buying cooperatives (VBC) with grammars of regulated rewriting and show that, if VBC relevant information is distributed over several successive VBC processes and must, in a later stage, be synchronised and co-ordinated, the formal grammar needs to be very powerful with respect to mode of derivation and thus generative capacity. In particular, we show how to model the supplier phase, invitation phase, and declaration phase of a VBC with random permitting context grammars and the VBC reservation phase with random context grammars under a special kind of leftmost derivation. If we use random permitting context grammars for all processes, we can only model a VBC formation during which information is introduced and processed locally and successively rather than being spread over different VBC processes.
KW - Coalition Formation
KW - Random Context Grammar
KW - Random Permitting Context Grammar
KW - Regulated Rewriting
KW - Virtual Buying Cooperative
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029356223&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5220/0006403700450055
DO - 10.5220/0006403700450055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029356223
T3 - SIMULTECH 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications
SP - 45
EP - 55
BT - SIMULTECH 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications
A2 - De Rango, Floriano
A2 - Oren, Tuncer
A2 - Obaidat, Mohammad S.
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, SIMULTECH 2017
Y2 - 26 July 2017 through 28 July 2017
ER -