The Architecture of Multiagent-Based Agile Supply Chain

Author

Zhang, Zhe

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Fudan Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

4782

Lastpage

4785

Abstract

Agile supply chain comes into being with the development of supply chain and agile manufacturing. It is an effective method to use multiagent technology to support agile supply chain management. Based on the analysis on the characteristic of agile supply chain and multiagent technology, and to achieve the goal of quick response and dynamic reconstruction, this paper presents the architecture of multiagent-based agile supply chain, and analyzes the construction and the operation mechanism of enterprise agents and coordination agent in detail. Furthermore, taking CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) as the distributed standard, this paper discusses the design and the development of agile supply chain system.

Keywords

agile manufacturing; distributed object management; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; supply chain management; agile manufacturing; agile supply chain management; common object request broker architecture; multiagent technology; multiagent-based agile supply chain architecture; Agile manufacturing; Control systems; Electronic mail; IP networks; Multiagent systems; Standards development; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology management; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.1173

Filename

4340948