Automating supply chain negotiations using autonomous agents: a case study in transportation logistics

Authors:
Sander van der Putten;Valentin Robu;Han La Poutré;Annemiek Jorritsma;Margo Gal
Affiliations:
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Vos Logistics Organizing B.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Eindhoven University Of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Eindhoven University Of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Vos Logistics Organizing B.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Vos Logistics Organizing B.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Venue:
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a case study for the application of agent-mediated negotiation techniques in transportation logistics. More specifically, we consider the interaction between several logistics service providers negotiating over the allocation of transportation orders. In this context, we show that automated negotiation techniques (especially multi-issue or multi-item negotiation) can bring significant advantages, by allowing parties to discover jointly profitable bundles (allocations) of orders. The model, evaluations and results reported in this paper concern the business processes of Vos Logistics, one of the largest European transportation logistic providers.