A message-driving formalism for modeling and simulation of multi-agent supply chain systems

作者：Tan Wenzhe^*; Chai Yueting; Liu Yi

来源：Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 2011, 20(4): 385-399.

DOI：10.1007/s11518-011-5182-x

• Supply chain
• multi-agent system
• modeling and simulation
• parallel discrete event simulation
• message-driving formalism

To acquire a competitive advantage in the expanding market, manufacturing enterprises should be able to manage their supply chains as effectively as possible. It is now becoming popular to model supply chains as multi-agent systems and use discrete event simulation to learn more about their behaviors or investigate the implications of alternative configurations. In order to enhance the computational efficiency and keep the simulation credibility, this paper proposes a message-driving formalism for the simulation of multi-agent supply chain systems. Through the message-driving formalism, the problem of shared variables is addressed and the parallel operation of agents is implemented. Simulation experiments with a prototype implementation show that the message-driving formalism is able to provide credible results in significantly less simulation time.

• 出版日期2011-12
• 单位清华大学