A simulation design of transshipment cooperation based on distributed inventory systems

Author

Wu, Wei ; Li, Wenfeng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Logistics Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2009

Firstpage

624

Lastpage

629

Abstract

This paper mainly studies cooperative design of transshipment in distributed inventory systems under decentralized control. Simulation models based on agents is established to simulate the transshipment cooperation policies of the systems. The efficiency of two different policies is compared by simulation and optimization experiments. According to the result of the experiments, the policy of preventive transshipment is found to be more effectual than the other one. But the effectuality of this policy depends on the accurateness of demand forecast.

Keywords

demand forecasting; goods distribution; groupware; inventory management; software agents; agents; cooperative design; decentralized control; demand forecast; distributed inventory system; preventive transshipment; simulation design; simulation model; transshipment cooperation; Collaborative work; Computational modeling; Control systems; Cost function; Design engineering; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Game theory; Logistics; Transportation; Cooperation Policy; Distributed Inventory Systems; Game Theory; MAS; Simulation; Transshipment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009. CSCWD 2009. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3534-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968128

Filename

4968128