Developing service supply chains by using agent based simulation

Аннотация

Agent-based simulation has been utilized in various fields of research and the approach has gained increasing interest in operations management and supply chain management (Dyke Parunak et al., 1998; Giannakis and Louis, 2011; Amini et al., 2012). Most of the simulation studies are still using discrete events (DE) or system dynamic simulation. Traditionally flow of goods or people is handled by using numerical variables or objects containing property information. Agent-based simulation models bring some new possibilities to handle large amount of actors – agents – which may have complicated behavior and can interact with each other.