Multi-agent Coordination Schemas in Decentralized Production Systems

Decentralized production systems are considered organizational structures able to match agility and efficiency necessary to compete in the market. One of the challenges faced by the decentralized production systems is to ensure the coordination of heterogeneous decisions of the multi-agent populated the system. In the decentralized production system, the double marginalization results that the upstream agent is conservative to expand to the system optimal capacity. The research proposes the cost-revenue sharing schema and the transfer-payment schema to overcome the system inefficiency. The schemas are self-enforcing, which allow the maximization of the system profit as well as the improvement of the agents´ profits