Agent-based modeling and simulation on the vehicle supply network

With the fast development and evolution in the vehicle market, the construction and maintenance of the vehicle supply network faces greater challenge, making its modeling and simulation critically important. This paper, aiming at the lack of the precision and wholeness as well as the global visualization, proposed an agent-based vehicle supply model by analysing the objects in the network. The proposed model can reveal the operation processes and key parameters variation of the customer, distributor, enterprise as well as the supplier object, and by adopting the fine GUI to provide the visualization, the proposed model can simulate the customers´ purchase strategy and the other objects´ sell, and stock processes adding the actual events including the suppliers´ increasing and decreasing in the market competition. Based on the proposed model, this paper further carried out the simulation experiments to verify the model´s effectiveness. The model shall be of great meanings by providing reasonable prediction to the scale and share variation of the vehicle market.