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PAAMS 2018: Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection pp 161–171Cite as

Agents in Logistics and Supply Chain

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Agents technology is popular in many different scientific area. One of them is logistics and supply chain. Agent is characterized by many features, as: mobility and intelligence, autonomy, the ability to monitor the environment at all times. Authors in this article focus on aspect of agents in logistics and supply chain. In this area 3 types of agents can be distinguished: searching agents, monitoring agents and managing agents. Describing the agents topic author decided to present basic information about Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) and Agent Based Simulation (ABS), which are used in logistics also. In this article are presented examples of using each mentioned method of simulation in logistics area.

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Acknowledgements

The work was carried out as part of the POIR.01.01.01-00-0485/17 project, “Development of a new type of logistic trolley and methods of collision-free and deadlock-free implementation of intralogistics processes”, financed by NCBiR.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering Management, Chair of Production Engineering and Logistics, Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Patrycja Hoffa-Dabrowska & Kamila Kluska

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Elena María Navarro Martínez

  4. TECNALIA, Derio, Spain

    Eneko Osaba Icedo

  5. Lille University of Science and Technology, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  6. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Patrycja Hoffa-Dąbrowska

  7. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Elena del Val

  8. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Sylvain Giroux

  9. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Antonio J.M. Castro

  10. Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Nayat Sánchez-Pi

  11. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián

  12. Informatica e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catar, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

  13. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Fernández

  14. ICB, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  15. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rubén Fuentes-Fernández

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Hoffa-Dabrowska, P., Kluska, K. (2018). Agents in Logistics and Supply Chain. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_15

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