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In recent years, increased attention has been shown to the supply chain risk management due to the occurrences of several high profile disruptions which had resulted in significant social, economic and political impact globally. However, there aren’t direct and easy ways of understanding the risk of an entire supply chain. In this paper, a network connectivity embedded k-means clustering approach has been proposed to determine at-risk clusters of nodes which share similar risk profiles and linkages with the focal company. The proposed approach uses a multiple dimensional feature vector to represent the risks that nodes are facing, their geographical locations, supply chain attributes and network connectivity attributes. The clustering approach is able to reduce the complexity of a large supply chain network to facilitate in-depth targeted analysis and simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been illustrated by experiments that successfully identify the risk clusters and critical risk zones.
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Yin, X.F., Fu, X., Ponnambalam, L., Goh, R.S.M. (2015). A Network Connectivity Embedded Clustering Approach for Supply Chain Risk Assessment. In: Handa, H., Ishibuchi, H., Ong, YS., Tan, K. (eds) Proceedings of the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Volume 1. Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13359-1_30
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