Implementation of Autonomous Supply Chains for Digital Twinning: a Multi-Agent Approach
Abstract
Trade disruptions, the pandemic, and the Ukraine war over the past years have adversely affected global supply chains, revealing their vulnerability. Autonomous supply chains are an emerging topic that has gained attention in industry and academia as a means of increasing their monitoring and robustness. While many theoretical frameworks exist, there is only sparse work to facilitate generalisable technical implementation. We address this gap by investigating multi-agent system approaches for implementing autonomous supply chains, presenting an autonomous economic agent-based technical framework. We illustrate this framework with a prototype, studied in a perishable food supply chain scenario, and discuss possible extensions.
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@article{arxiv.2309.04785,
title = {Implementation of Autonomous Supply Chains for Digital Twinning: a Multi-Agent Approach},
author = {Liming Xu and Yaniv Proselkov and Stefan Schoepf and David Minarsch and Maria Minaricova and Alexandra Brintrup},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04785},
year = {2023}
}
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This paper includes 7 Pages, 4 Figures, and has been accepted by the IFAC World Congress 2023, 9 July - 14 July, 2023, Yokohama, Japan and will be published in IFAC-PapersOnLine