A decision support system for inventory control using planning and distributed agents

Authors:
Robert Signorile
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Venue:
IEA/AIE'2005 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Agent Technology has become very popular in the last few years as a new approach to developing software systems. Multi Agent Systems (MAS), a term used to describe the incorporation of multiple types of agents into various systems, is a way of designing and implementing a system with the advantages of agent entities. We chose to use agents as a decision support tool for use in a Retail Inventory Management System. Since the management of inventory is crucial to the success of most companies, and since we see a potential major role for agents in the business process management MAS seems a likely choice for a decision support platform. This work stems from our prior work in simulating a MAS inventory system, then implementing the system for production use.