An Agent-Based Cooperative Mechanism for Integrated Production and Transportation Planning
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This paper presents a decentralized cooperative economic scheduling mechanism for a supply chain environment. For this purpose, we design autonomous agents that minimize the production or transportation and outsourcing costs incurred by the external execution of a task. The decentralized cooperative scheduling approach comprises two parts: the individual optimization of an agent’s local schedule and the cooperative contract optimization, either by outsourcing the task or by (re)contracting the release time and due time with the contract partners aiming to maximize their total profits. A negotiation mechanism based on trust accounts is employed to protect the agents against systematic exploitation by their partners.
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