Title :
Tackling the complexity of a textile dyeing enterprise with the help of agent-based simulation
Author :
Gao, Lei ; Ding, Yongsheng ; Dai, Hua
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Donghua Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
This paper presents an agent-based system (ABS) for the exploration of potential solutions to optimizing energy usage and reducing waste discharges in the printing and dyeing (PD) industry. The behaviors of a PD enterprise/plant emerge from interactions among low-level entities. Via these interactions among entities in different levels of hierarchy, materials, energy, and capital are transformed to products, wastes, and services. In addition, an enterprise is also designed as a BDI agent that has beliefs, desires, and intentions. The proposed ABS is used to simulate the activities of a PD plant and their interactions with market and environment. A PD enterprise in Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province in China is used as in a case study. Three management strategies, including “business-as-usual” strategy and the other two waste discharge tax strategies, are assessed. The results show how the effectiveness of strategies and the distribution of their impacts can be very different from what one would expect without the benefit of a simulation system.
Keywords :
dyeing; production engineering computing; software agents; textile industry; BDI agent; PD enterprise; agent-based simulation; business-as-usual strategy; capital level; dyeing industry; energy level; hierarchy level; materials level; printing industry; textile dyeing enterprise; waste discharge tax strategies; Cities and towns; Educational technology; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Industrial pollution; Paper technology; Partial discharges; Printing; Textile industry; Textile technology; Water conservation; agent-based system; complex adaptive system; printing and dyeing industry; waste discharge;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5263-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5265-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477906