Supply web co-ordination by an agent-based trading network with integrated logistics services |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Production and Systems Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal;2. Department of Control and Manufacturing Systems, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia;1. Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Wólczyńska 133, 01-919 Warsaw, Poland;2. Industrial Chemistry Research Institute, Rydygiera 8, 01-793 Warsaw, Poland;3. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland;4. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland;5. Faculty of Materials Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Wołoska 141, 02-507 Warsaw, Poland;1. Computer Assisted Research and Development Group, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland;2. Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland;3. Department of Orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland;1. University of Jyväskylä, Finland;2. Research Centre for Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;3. Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
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| Abstract: | B2B interactions, like electronic negotiations and auctions between suppliers and customers, could be significantly improved by enabling the participants to adapt their bidding strategies to current logistics information (e.g., about transportation condition, cost or dates) while the negotiation goes on. We present an approach of an agent-based information and trading network (ITN) called CASA for dynamic production and sales of timber; the integrated services for logistics and e-commerce are efficiently coordinated by appropriate types of holonic structured intelligent agents of the network. We introduce the agent-based architecture and describe how the agents build their plans and optimize them afterwards. For optimizing their plans, the agents use various market-based negotiation mechanisms, i.e., several auction mechanisms and the simulated trading mechanism described in detail in this article. The effects of the different mechanisms on resulting cost and surplus have been evaluated by various simulation runs in different competitive and co-operative settings. It turned out that the simulated trading mechanism as well as matrix auction mechanisms for two or three items are especially suitable for supply web co-ordination and optimization tasks. |
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