Evaluation model framework based on simulation for enterprise network negotiation mechanisms

Abstract

International audienceCurrently enterprises are organising themselves in 'new' structures, alternatively called enterprise networks, virtual enterprises, supply chains. We are interested in enterprise networks in which decision and information systems are distributed. We are searching for a global performance while controlling the architecture with local bilaterally negotiated co-decisions. We propose an architecture based on multi-agent system and the associated protocols, described by statecharts, to ensure as much as possible a global coherence and the convergence of the decision process. We propose models and tools in order to validate our approach by simulation of the multi-agent system. We employ our model on a particular problem in which enterprises are searching complementary resources (stocks, production capacities, components and/or transport capacities) in order to deal with unexpected orders different from the planned forecasting. The simulation considers parameters of the architecture systems in order to define how many unexpected orders must be treated in parallel the goal is to find a good equilibrium between minimisation of answer delay and maximisation of efficiency

Resiliency characteristics of a competitive and collaborative complex adaptive supply network

“…Kaihara (2003) proposed a supply chain management (SCM) based on market-oriented programming that predicts multi-agent behaviour. Monteiro et al (2010) studied an enterprise network problem to search complementary resources in order to deal with unexpected orders different from the planned forecasting using agent-based simulation approach. Wang et al (2011) developed an ontology-based knowledge representation scheme and two agent interaction protocols for modelling enterprise interactions in a supply chain network via a multi-agent simulation approach.…”

Integrating Multi-View Model and Agent Paradigm in the Supply Chain Design

“…The design of this framework is based on three types of models: a Role Organizational Model (CROM), a Conceptual Agent Organizational Model (CAOM) and the Operational Agent Model (OPAM). Monteiro et al (2011) have proposed a generic distributed decision architecture based on multi-agent systems. This system uses a mechanism of co-decision controlled by different protocols.…”