Self-organizing Supply Networks: Emergent Agent Coordination in Autonomous Logistics
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Industrial production and trade require efficient and reliable supply networks. Growing interrelations between these networks and the inherent dynamics of the logistics domain result in a high complexity of global supply processes. Application of conventional centralized planning and control to these processes suffers from that complexity. Therefore, a need arises for decentralized methods employing autonomous actors representing logistics entities and objects.
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