• jeudi 03 avril 2003 : EPUM-GII, Campus St Jérôme - salle de Conférences (rez de chaussée)
  
  
  • 14h30 : Agent-oriented modelling and simulation of logistic processes (internal and external enterprise level and supply-chain level) - Nick Szirbik
    Department Information & Technology, Faculty of Technology Management
    Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
    
    Résumé :
    Logistic processes are a mixture of execution monitoring & operational control of flows of goods with tactical and strategic planning, which can be performed centrally or distributed. In a distributed approach, controllers and planners are collaborating to achieve good logistic coordination. The simulation of this processes can be done either as continuous-system simulation, using classical OR approaches, either as discrete-system simulation. Based on a discrete agent model, the simulation of logistical processes has first to achieve a degree of realism that captures the activities of people, machines and software at various levels of decision making (operational, tactical and strategic). Second, the running of simulation environment should be simple enough to permit that a small group can experiment with various scenarios. The way the simulation can be affected by the experimenter is by setting environment variables but also by setting the behaviour of the simulated agents. This behaviour can be implemented using different or mixed techniques (e.g. rules, fuzzy values, neural networks, workflow and Petri Nets, etc).