Title :
Combined modeling with multi-agent systems and simulation: its application to harbor supply chain management
Author :
Yi, Dong Won ; Kim, Soung Hie ; Kim, Nak Hyun
Author_Institution :
Strategic Manage. Div., LG-EDS Syst., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper presents a method for modeling the dynamic behavior of harbor supply chains and evaluating strategic and operational policies of the proposed harbor supply chain by applying multiagent systems and simulation. The multiagent systems modeling represent business entities as agents and the involved information and material flows with proposed coordination method for collaborating among agents. The simulation model is applied to quantifying the flow of supply chain, information and material flow, and conducted to simulate the global harbor supply chain operations, and determined which strategic and operational policies are the most effective in smoothing the variations in the supply chain.
Keywords :
digital simulation; goods dispatch data processing; management; marine systems; multi-agent systems; transportation; agent collaboration; business entities; coordination method; dynamic behavior; harbor supply chain management; information flow; material flow; modeling; multi-agent systems; operational policies; simulation; strategic policies; Collaboration; Conducting materials; Manufacturing industries; Marine vehicles; Multiagent systems; Raw materials; Smoothing methods; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Taxonomy;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1435-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2002.993987
