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The challenges in today’s global economy are flexibility and fast reactions to customer requests. To cope with these requirements there is a need for intelligent adaptive planning and control systems. The multiagent approach offers favorable prospects for adequate solutions. A simulation platform for the development of multiagent systems in logistics is presented. Logistics is viewed as socio-technical which enables to take into account human resources within the design process explicitly according their importance. This simulation platform is based on the discrete-event simulation environment HIDES developed at our institute. The modeling bases of the simulation is a reference model of logistics comprising few specific basic elements to be used according to a well-defined syntactical structure. To realize multiagent systems a particular management level is added, where the agents and the interfaces to human resources are located. The platform is intended to provide a substantial support for developing multiagent systems.
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Ulrich, H. (1999). A Simulation Platform for Multiagent Systems in Logistics. In: Kall, P., Lüthi, HJ. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 1998. Operations Research Proceedings 1998, vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58409-1_26
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