Distributed decision support systems for real-time supply chain management using agent technologies
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation
Decentralized Mechanism Design for Supply Chain Organizations Using an Auction Market
Information Systems Research
Embedded Agents for District Heating Management
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Agent Based Decision Support in Manufacturing Supply Chain
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Multi-agent-based supply chain management: a case study of requisites
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Behaviour adaptation in the multi-agent, multi-objective and multi-role supply chain
Computers in Industry
Hybrid simulation models - When, Why, How?
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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A multi-agent system architecture for coordination of just-in-time production and distribution is presented. The problem to solve is twofold: first the right amount of resources at the right time should be produced, then these resources should be distributed to the right consumers. In order to solve the first problem, which is hard when the production and/or distribution time is relatively long, each consumer is equipped with an agent that makes predictions of future needs that it sends to a production agent. The second part of the problem is approached by forming clusters of consumers within which it is possible to redistribute resources fast and at a low cost in order to cope with discrepancies between predicted and actual consumption. Redistribution agents are introduced (one for each cluster) to manage the redistribution of resources. The suggested architecture is evaluated in a case study concerning management of district heating systems. Results from a simulation study show that the suggested approach makes it possible to control the trade-off between quality of service and degree of surplus production. We also compare the suggested approach to a reference control scheme (approximately corresponding to the current approach to district heating management), and conclude that it is possible to reduce the amount of resources produced while maintaining the quality of service. Finally, we describe a simulation experiment where the relation between the size of the clusters and the quality of service was studied.