Coordination d'Activités dans les Chaînes Logistiques: une Approche Multi-Agents par Formation de Coalitions

Several factors have meant that enterprises operate in an environment increasingly demanding in terms of flexibility and reactivity. The introduction of the entities resulting from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the management of enterprises prove to be an interesting technology to simulate and reproduce the collaborative and adaptive behavior of enterprises. This article models the coordination of the various collaborative parties both inside and outside a supply chain using coordination methods found in MAS i.e. coalition formation mechanisms. The first part of this paper proposes a state of the art. In the second part, we present our agent modeling, and then we detail the coalition formation algorithm as well as the interaction protocol between agents used by the distributed coordination algorithm. Lastly, we illustrate our propositions with an example chosen in the industrial domain. MOTS-CLÉS : Chaînes Logistiques, Multi Agents, Formation de coalitions, coordination.