Effects of Trust Mechanisms on Supply-Chain Performance: A Multi-Agent Simulation Study

Lin, Fu‐ren; Sung, Yu-wei; Lo, Yi-Hao

doi:10.1080/10864415.2003.11044342

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“…Swarm is the well-known multi-agent simulation platform and toolkit, and the Swarm paradigm is employed in some works Strader, Lin, and Shaw 1998;Cañizares and Framiñán 2012) which provide extensive and in-depth discussions about the order fulfilment process in different supply chains. Moreover, Lin, Huang, and Lin (2002) and Lin, Sung, and Lo (2005) also evaluate the effects of information sharing and trust mechanisms, respectively, on supply chain performance with Swarm simulation. Different multi-agent architectures for supply chain integration and management have been presented as well (e.g.…”

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A fractal perspective-based methodological framework for supply chain modelling and distributed simulation with multi-agent system

Dai

Lin

Long

2014

International Journal of Production Research

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With the development of global economy, supply chain, as a recognised complex system, is becoming more complex for analysis. In this context, it is worth introducing the perspective of complex system in perceiving and modelling of supply chain system to address its dynamic, stochastic and uncertain characteristics. Therefore, this paper proposes a methodological framework of supply chain modelling and simulation based on the fractal perspective, and presents an all-round and systematic exposition of concept modelling and distributed simulation by means of multi-agent technology. In this framework, different supply chain scenarios focusing on manufacturing, inventory and transportation can be easily modelled and simulated at different scales and levels. In addition, a prototype system which implements the methodological framework and the key implementation techniques are presented as well. Finally, a supply chain example, which supposes manufacturer as the core member, is modelled and simulated with the prototype system to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

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A fractal perspective-based methodological framework for supply chain modelling and distributed simulation with multi-agent system

Dai

Lin

Long

2014

International Journal of Production Research

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“…The effects of alliance information on Web service composition 409 (http://www.swarm.org), a multi-agent simulation platform, has been used as an effective API tool for studying dynamic and complex systems in a variety of disciplines, including ecology, economics, and business (Lin et al 2005). We model the dynamic process of WSC using Swarm.…”

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“…Further, a multi-agent intelligent system architecture was adopted to support context-aware coordinated Web services (Kwon 2006). A multi-agent system is suitable for modeling Web services, particularly because they involve divisible processes (Lin et al 2005). Nonetheless, agents have yet to be used to model alliance information between Web services.…”

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The effects of alliance information on Web service composition

Sung

Zhou

2007

Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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Web service composition (WSC) has emerged as a promising approach to integrating business applications within and across organizational boundaries. One of the major objectives of WSC research is to improve the performance of composite Web services. To this end, alliance information between different services partners has great potential, but has been overlooked by extant approaches to composing Web services. To address the above limitation, we propose an allianceaware method for WSC in this paper, which incorporates the alliance information in constructing Web services. In addition, we adopt a multi-agent architecture to model and evaluate methods for WSC. Our experiment results reveal a significant impact of alliance information on the performance of WSC. We believe our findings on WSC are important to both WSC researchers and practitioners.

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“…The retailer agents in the model have learning capabilities and can learn how to set price and order quantity that maximize performance. Lin et al (2005) used ABM to study trust as a criteria for supplier selection in a complex three-tier supply network modeled after the mold-manufacturing industry.…”

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Analysis of B2B e-marketplaces: an operations perspective

Zhang

Bhattacharyya

2008

Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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The phenomenon of business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces has triggered a lot of interest among researchers in recent years. Most of these studies focus on price competition or cost reduction. Few studies, however, have examined the impact of e-marketplaces on the participants' supply chain operations, including inventory management and order fulfillment. This study aims to fill such a gap. Employing agent-based simulations, we find that supply network agents tend to keep more inventories and backlog/lose fewer orders in the e-marketplace than in traditional supply chains. And this effect is profounder for the upstream agents, i.e., distributors and manufacturers than for downstream agents, i.e., retailers. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed.

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Effects of Trust Mechanisms on Supply-Chain Performance: A Multi-Agent Simulation Study

Cited by 43 publications

References 29 publications

A fractal perspective-based methodological framework for supply chain modelling and distributed simulation with multi-agent system

A fractal perspective-based methodological framework for supply chain modelling and distributed simulation with multi-agent system

The effects of alliance information on Web service composition

Analysis of B2B e-marketplaces: an operations perspective

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