Business Analytics as a Framework for an Evolving Multi-Agent System

Abstract

This article first reviews business analytics (BA)
process with its key tasks, and then proposes a framework of an
evolving multiagent system from the perspective of an automated
business analytics. Under this view, typical BA tasks, such as
prediction, evaluation, and decision are carried out by individual
intelligent agents in a multiagent system (MAS) with an evolving
environment to cope with the target business application.