COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION FOR THE PROVISIONS BALANCING IN A MULTI-AGENT SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM FOR THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Hayfa Zgaya, David Tang, Slim Hammadi

2008

Abstract

Since a few years, logistics has become a performance criterion for the organizations success. So the Supply Chain (SC) study is adopted more and more for the competitiveness of companies development. In previous works we proposed an approach, which aims to reduce an emerging phenomenon of the demand amplification, called the Bullwhip Effect. In this paper, we present a model, based on the proposed approach, for a Cooperative Negotiation for the Provision Balancing in a SC system. The studied SC is a hierarchical system dedicated to the Crisis Management. A Multi-Agent architecture is then proposed to design this distributed chain through interactive software agents. The results of simulation, presented in this paper, prove the importance of the interaction between the SC entities for the Provisions Balancing.

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Zgaya H., Tang D. and Hammadi S. (2008). COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION FOR THE PROVISIONS BALANCING IN A MULTI-AGENT SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM FOR THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-53-1, pages 280-283. DOI: 10.5220/0001883102800283


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft08,
author={Hayfa Zgaya and David Tang and Slim Hammadi},
title={COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION FOR THE PROVISIONS BALANCING IN A MULTI-AGENT SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM FOR THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,},
year={2008},
pages={280-283},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001883102800283},
isbn={978-989-8111-53-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,
TI - COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION FOR THE PROVISIONS BALANCING IN A MULTI-AGENT SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM FOR THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-53-1
AU - Zgaya H.
AU - Tang D.
AU - Hammadi S.
PY - 2008
SP - 280
EP - 283
DO - 10.5220/0001883102800283