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

fYear

2002

fDate

7-10 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

1615

Lastpage

1624

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1435-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2002.993987

Filename

993987