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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

Individual business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Carlos R. Jaimez-González , Wulfrano A. Luna-Ramírez

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global supply chain is disrupted at an unprecedented scale under uncertain and unknown trends of labor shortage, high material prices, and changing travel or trade regulations. To stay competitive,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mingjie Bi , Gongyu Chen , Dawn M. Tilbury , Siqian Shen , Kira Barton

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

Modern supply chains are increasingly exposed to disruptions from geopolitical events, demand shocks, trade restrictions, to natural disasters. While many of these disruptions originate deep in the supply network, most companies still lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sara AlMahri , Liming Xu , Alexandra Brintrup

This paper discusses the broad challenges shared by e-commerce and the process industries operating global supply chains. Specifically, we discuss how process industries and e-commerce differ in many aspects but have similar challenges…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-31 Cristiana L. Lara , John Wassick

The world is currently strongly connected through both the internet at large, but also the very supply chains which provide everything from food to infrastructure and technology. The supply chains are themselves vulnerable to adversarial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen , Shishir Nagaraja , Angela Daly

Recent pandemics have highlighted vulnerabilities in our global economic systems, especially supply chains. Possible future pandemic raises a dilemma for businesses owners between short-term profitability and long-term supply chain…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Teddy Lazebnik

Supply Chain coordination has become a critical success factor for Supply Chain management (SCM) and effectively improving the performance of organizations in various industries. Companies are increasingly located at the intersection of one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Benaissa Ezzeddine , Benabdelhafid Abdellatif , Benaissa Mounir

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

Recent global disruptions, such as the pandemic and geopolitical conflicts, have profoundly exposed vulnerabilities in traditional supply chains, requiring exploration of more resilient alternatives. Autonomous supply chains (ASCs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Liming Xu , Stephen Mak , Yaniv Proselkov , Alexandra Brintrup

In the highly complex and stochastic global, supply chain environments, local enterprise agents seek distributed and dynamic strategies for agile responses to disruptions. Existing literature explores both centralized and distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mingjie Bi , Juan-Alberto Estrada-Garcia , Dawn M. Tilbury , Siqian Shen , Kira Barton

Modelling how shocks propagate in supply chains is an increasingly important challenge in economics. Its relevance has been highlighted in recent years by events such as Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Agent-based models…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-10 Saad Hamid , José Moran , Luca Mungo , Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Sebastian Towers

The Internet has changed the way business is conducted in many ways. For example, in the field of procurement, the possibility to directly interact with a trading partner has given rise to new mechanisms in the supply chain management. One…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Yee Ming Chen

Digital technologies have changed the way supply chain operations are structured. In this article, we conduct systematic syntheses of literature on the impact of new technologies on supply chains and the related cyber risks. A…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Petar Radanliev , David De Roure , Kevin Page , Jason Nurse , Rafael Mantilla Montalvo , Omar Santos , La Treall Maddox , Peter Burnap

In recent years, the frequent occurrence of disruptions has had a negative impact on global supply chains. To stay competitive, enterprises strive to remain agile through the implementation of efficient and effective decision-making…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mingjie Bi , Dawn M. Tilbury , Siqian Shen , Kira Barton

Recent events such as wars, sanctions, pandemics, and climate change have shown the importance of proper supply network management. A key step in managing supply networks is procurement. We present an approach for realizing a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jan-David Stütz , Oliver Karras , Allard Oelen , Sören Auer

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for the supply chain management. This approach is based on the virtual enterprise paradigm and the used of multi-agent concept. Each entity (like enterprise) is autonomous and must…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Daniel Roy , Didier Anciaux , Thibaud Monteiro , Latifa Ouzizi

Supply chain planning is the critical process of anticipating future demand and coordinating operational activities across the logistics network. However, within the context of contemporary e-commerce, traditional planning paradigms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jiaheng Yin , Yongzhi Qi , Jianshen Zhang , Dongyang Geng , Zhengyu Chen , Hao Hu , Wei Qi , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

We investigate the emerging prospect of self-sovereign agents -- AI systems that can economically sustain and extend their own operation without human involvement. Recent advances in large language models and agent frameworks have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenjie Qu , Xuandong Zhao , Jiaheng Zhang , Dawn Song
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