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Acquiring resources has always played an important role in doing business. Initially companies gathered them within their own capacity until different sorts of business clusters started to appear. They began to purchase products and services needed to do business by their individual members in order to obtain preferential prices and other trade conditions. Thanks to geographical proximity as well as close and stable cooperation, companies are able to gain a lot of benefits that they would not reach if they worked on their own. The information and communication technologies (ICT) has given a possibility to go beyond traditional cluster concept and has allowed various geographically spread companies to form electronic clusters (e-clusters). Agent technology seems especially promising in this respect. Software agents are able to support inefficient traditional e-marketplaces, including partners who offer one another the best cooperation possibilities and conditions at a given time. The main contributions of this book chapter is the presentation of new resources acquisition method and the e-sourcing cluster concept. Additionally authors have built and verified simulation model of four e-sourcing cluster strategies.
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Fuks, K., Kawa, A. (2013). e-Sourcing Clusters in Network Economy. In: Hakansson, A., Hartung, R. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Systems - Digital Economy and E-Commerce. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 462. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35208-9_2
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