Study on the Negotiation Mechanism of Multi-Agent-Based Vehicle Routing System in Virtual Enterprise

Author

Jin, Shousong ; Jin, Jing ; Chen, Yefei ; Jiang, Meixian ; Feng, Dingzhong

Author_Institution

Inst. for Ind. Eng., Zhejiang Univ. of Technol., Hangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Virtual enterprise, as one of the most important and novel organization paradigm in global manufacturing, is increasingly being focused. On the basis of analysis the problem of vehicle routing in virtual enterprise, a multi-agent-based vehicle routing model is proposed. In the work, we use an autonomy vehicle intelligent agent which can improve the problem solving ability of the system. Then a discussion is conducted on negotiation mechanism between agents.

Keywords

logistics; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; virtual enterprises; autonomy vehicle intelligent agent; global manufacturing; multi-agent-based vehicle routing system; negotiation mechanism; system problem solving ability; virtual enterprise; Costs; Decision making; Logistics; Manufacturing; Problem-solving; Production systems; Resource management; Routing; Vehicles; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1636

Filename

4679544