Modeling decentralized inter-organizational business structures through agent-based simulation

Mukai, Taisei; Terano, Takao

doi:10.1109/wac.2016.7583025

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“…Then the sigmoid function was adopted. The setting of this sigmoid function occurs a centralized structure with a moderate response to trading volume, according to the previous research [13]. Conducting exclusive dealing with the provider determined by this ratio can form a centralized structure.…”

Section: Proposed Decentralized and Centralized Trading Structure Modelmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Based on this concept, this study examines the fundamental model with two simple inter-business structures. A model, which is capable of handling both decentralized and centralized structures, has been proposed [13]. Additionally, buffering for dealing with changes in trading volumes within the centralized structure has been examined.…”

Section: Related Studies On the Inter-business Centralized Trading Stmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inter-Business Trading Structure Model with Agent-Based Simulation and Its Application to Real Data

Mukai

Terano

2019

SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration

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This paper proposes an inter-business trading structure model with agent-based simulation. The proposed model can deal with the two kinds of dynamic changes: (1) supply and demand volumes and the resulting production lead time, and (2) the combination of both decentralized and centralized inter-business structure. The model is applied to analyzing recent rapid market changes of Japanese firm data. The data is taken from the TDB (Teikoku Databank) business trading database, which contains firm information with four million trading items, business volumes and relations over many years. Using this information, we focused on changes in the trading of firms involved in the Japanese software industry. The experimental results applied to real data suggest that the dynamic structural changes determined by the model have a critical role in various cases of performance of Japanese software industry firms in the TDB database.

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Section: Proposed Decentralized and Centralized Trading Structure Modelmentioning

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Section: Related Studies On the Inter-business Centralized Trading Stmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inter-Business Trading Structure Model with Agent-Based Simulation and Its Application to Real Data

Mukai

Terano

2019

SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration

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Effects of Trade Environment in Decentralized Inter-Organizational Business Structures Through Agent Simulation

Mukai¹,

Terano²

2018

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The objective of this research is to investigate the features of an inter-firm trade structure model. We have developed this model through agent-based simulation. In order to adapt to rapid changes in the business market, each firm must deal with changes in requirements and the required volume changes. Thus, the model has two combined functions. The first function allows a firm to freely trade with other firms as a decentralized trade structure. The second function allows a firm to mediate other firms as a centralized trade structure. The combined model has worked well in various test cases so far. However, other trading environments have not been fully investigated. Therefore, this study focuses on the detailed environmental conditions: (1) the number of similar firms and (2) the number of procurement items, and deals with intensive experiments and detailed analysis of the two functions of the model in the agent-based simulations. The simulation results suggest that the two functions in the combined model work particularly well under the conditions of a trading environment in which there exist both (1) a large number of similar business firms and (2) firms with a certain number of procurement items, compared to the decentralized trade structure, where each firm’s size is neither particularly large nor small.

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Modeling decentralized inter-organizational business structures through agent-based simulation

Cited by 3 publications

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Inter-Business Trading Structure Model with Agent-Based Simulation and Its Application to Real Data

Inter-Business Trading Structure Model with Agent-Based Simulation and Its Application to Real Data

Framework of Evaluating Business Partner Recommendation Beyond Industry Types Toward Virtual Corporation

Effects of Trade Environment in Decentralized Inter-Organizational Business Structures Through Agent Simulation

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