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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION
Transactions ID Number: 19-642
Full Name: Seigo Matsuno
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 2-14-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi, 755-8555 Japan
Country: JAPAN
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Title of the Paper: modeling and analysis of information systems outsourcing based on agent systems
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Seigo Matsuno, Takao Ito, Masayoshi Hasama, Tatsuo Asai
Email addresses of all the authors: matsuno@ube-k.ac.jp
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: Information systems (IS) outsourcing can be classified into two typical but different patterns: conventional outsourcing and quasi-outsourcing. However, the diverse variety of IS outsourcing decision whether firms are increasing, decreasing, or keeping their current IS outsourcing level is widely seen recently. Therefore, development of mathematical models depending on situations is required to describe and analyze the collaborations/relationships among firms in a general way. This paper treats the analysis of profits/prices changes in formalizing of collaboration among agents and adds to understanding of IS outsourcing phenomena by applying a mathematical model based on agent systems. Up to now, two influential perspectives of outsourcing, that is, TCE and the RBV have been both making a valuable contribution to understanding and explaining the complexities of outsourcing. However, we revealed that the outcomes of outsourcing can fluctuate inherently according to !
the degree of the collaboration between firms by our simulation studies. By assuming a firm agent produces goods by using support of another outside agent with several cost of labor usage, then the wealth of a firm agent bears sine chaotic fluctuations depending on the rate of collaboration among agents. This finding is applicable to the cases where the firms will procure services related to IS activities from outside vendors in real world. Researchers and practitioners should keep in mind that it has a crucial problem of profits/prices changes according to the degree of collaboration between firms in their IS outsourcing decisions.
Keywords: Information systems outsourcing, Collaboration, Agent systems, Simulation, Chaotic fluctuation
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Special (Invited) Session: Modeling of IS Outsourcing based on Agent Systems: An Analysis of Profits/Prices Changes in Formalizing Collaboration among Firms
Organizer of the Session: 635-363
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