Study On Mobile Multi-Agent Model For Supply Chain Coordination And Simulation

With the development of the global economics, the competition between the enterprises is changing to between the supply chains, and the SCM is more popular with the academic study and the enterprises. The coordination of supply chain is the core issue of the SCM, but we have not studied so much about the problem. The main way of realizing the coordination is to building models. Between so many models, the simulation modeling method has many advantages, but no matter the centralized method, the distributed or the Agent based can not solve the problem well because of their disadvantages.After summarizing and analysing the many supply chain modeling and simulation methods, I propose the method—the moble multi-Agent system simulation method, and study the steps of realization with an instance. so the main content and innovation of this paper including:(1)summarizing and analysing the study of the coordination and simulation of the supply chain, and proposing the main content—the moble multi-Agent system(MMAS) simulation method. And study the MMAS deeply, including the architecture of the model, the advantages and modeling process.(2)analysing and designing the MMAS model with an supply chain example, which are the key points in this paper. And analysing the function of every Agent, and the database of models, messages, actions, and after that, design the internal frame of every Agent, and for the key Agent, we design the related algorithm to realize the functions, which is preparing for the relization of Agents.(3)using the Agent developping platform—JADE to realize the MMAS. And introducing the key techniques, such as the realization of Agent, action rules, communication rules, and mobilation and so on.(4) we use the mobility of the Agent to realize distributed computing, which reduces the runtime of the system; and also realize the selection of the supplier in a wider conditions, which helps reduce the cost the supplier chain.