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Supply chain management has been concentrated on productive ways to manage flows through a sophisticated vendor, manufacturer, and consumer networks for decades. Recently, energy and material rates have been greatly consumed to improve the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ahmad Sobhan Abir , Ishtiaq Ahmed Bhuiyan , Mohammad Arani , Md Mashum Billal

Most solutions to the inventory management problem assume a centralization of information that is incompatible with organisational constraints in real supply chain networks. The inventory management problem is a well-known planning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Marwan Mousa , Damien van de Berg , Niki Kotecha , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio-Chanona , Max Mowbray

Maintaining a balance between the supply and demand of products by optimizing replenishment decisions is one of the most important challenges in the supply chain industry. This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Rémi Leluc , Elie Kadoche , Antoine Bertoncello , Sébastien Gourvénec

Multi-agent systems (MAS) may encounter uncertainties in the form of unexpected environmental conditions, sub-optimal system configurations, and unplanned interactions between autonomous agents. The number of combinations of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Abigail C. Diller , Erik M. Fredericks

This paper presents a spatio-temporal inverse optimal control framework for understanding interactions in multi-agent systems (MAS). We employ a graph representation approach and model the dynamics of interactions between agents as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Sara Honarvar , Yancy Diaz-Mercado

Supply chain management (SCM) involves coordinating the flow of goods, information, and finances across various entities to deliver products efficiently. Effective inventory management is crucial in today's volatile and uncertain world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yinzhu Quan , Zefang Liu

Language-driven grasp detection has the potential to revolutionize human-robot interaction by allowing robots to understand and execute grasping tasks based on natural language commands. However, existing approaches face two key challenges.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Quang Nguyen , Tri Le , Huy Nguyen , Thieu Vo , Tung D. Ta , Baoru Huang , Minh N. Vu , Anh Nguyen

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

Agent-based systems have the capability to fuse information from many distributed sources and create better plans faster. This feature makes agent-based systems naturally suitable to address the challenges in Supply Chain Management (SCM).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Liming Xu , Stephen Mak , Alexandra Brintrup

Trade restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical conflicts have significantly exposed vulnerabilities within traditional global supply chains. These events underscore the need for organisations to establish more resilient and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Liming Xu , Stephen Mak , Maria Minaricova , Alexandra Brintrup

In this paper, a novel intelligent method based on a multi-agent system (MAS) is applied to the problem of optimal sizing in a stand-alone office complex microgrid such that the electricity demand of the office building and the charging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Soheil Mohseni , Seyed Masoud Moghaddas-Tafreshi

This paper addresses the problem of managing perishable inventory under multiple sources of uncertainty, including stochastic demand, unreliable supplier fulfillment, and probabilistic product shelf life. We develop a discrete-event…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Leonardo Kanashiro Felizardo , Edoardo Fadda , Mariá Cristina Vasconcelos Nascimento

With information revolution, increased globalization and competition, supply chain has become longer and more complicated than ever before. These developments bring supply chain management to the forefront of the managements attention.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-11 S. Narmadha , Dr. V. Selladurai , G. Sathish

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

Organizing sensor nodes in clusters is an effective method for energy preservation in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Throughout this research work we present a novel hybrid clustering scheme, that combines a typical gradient clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Basilis Mamalis , Marios Perlitis

This paper addresses dynamic task allocation in resource-constrained multi-agent systems (MASs) with sequentially updated assignments. We develop a submodular maximization framework integrated with $q$-independence systems, demonstrating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jing Liu , Fangfei Li , Xin Jin , Yang Tang

Multi-agent path planning is a critical challenge in robotics, requiring agents to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions and optimizing travel efficiency. This work addresses the limitations of existing approaches by…

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have triggered a surge in demand for machine learning training, which poses significant cost burdens and environmental challenges due to its substantial energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyue Zhang , Minrui Xu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Dusit Niyato

In this study, we introduce Generative Manufacturing Systems (GMS) as a novel approach to effectively manage and coordinate autonomous manufacturing assets, thereby enhancing their responsiveness and flexibility to address a wide array of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Xingyu Li , Fei Tao , Wei Ye , Aydin Nassehi , John W. Sutherland

This paper proposes a strategic multi layers model based on multi agents approach for supply chain system. It introduces a formulation and a solution methodology for the problem of supply chain design and modeling. In this paper we describe…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Samia Chehbi-Gamoura , Yacine Ouzrout , Abdelaziz Bouras