Analysis of Mobile Agents considering the Fan Out - Mobile Agents for Autonomous Logistics

Author

Becker, Markus ; Sayyed, Gulshanara ; Wenning, Bemd-Ludwig ; Görg, Carmelita

Author_Institution

AG Commun. Networks, Bremen Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

21-23 June 2006

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

515

Abstract

The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent technology is promising. Due to the mobile nature of logistics the usage of mobile agent technology is promising as well. Scenarios of usage of mobile agents in logistics are presented, a notation for those scenarios is defined and it is shown analytically in which cases the usage of mobile agent is superior to conventional communication. The main variable under study is the fan out, which is the number of partners a mobile agent needs to communicate with

Keywords

logistics; logistics data processing; mobile agents; autonomous logistics; fan out variable; logistic control systems; logistic planning; mobile agents; Bandwidth; Control systems; Delay; Logistics; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Multiagent systems; Programming profession; Wireless networks; Autonomous Logistics; Fan Out; Mobile Agents; Scenario Notation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006. SOLI '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0317-0

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0318-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2006.328939

Filename

4125633