Agent-based systems have the capability to fuse information from many distributed sources
and create better plans faster. This feature makes agent-based systems naturally suitable to …

Supply chain management (SCM) involves planning for the procurement of materials,
assembly of finished products from these materials, and distribution of products to …

Supply chain management represents a critical competency in today's fast-paced, global
business environment. However, in the current transition from EDI to Web-based supply …

Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally,
supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the …

Multi-agent systems have the potential to improve supply chain management. The adoption
of such systems has been limited, as their design often neglects existing organizational …

The supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution
centers, and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, and delivered …

Recently, researchers have begun investigating an emerging, technology-enabled
innovation that involves the use of intelligent software agents in enterprise supply chains …

We developed new class of approaches to manufacturing and supply chain decision
making. These approaches employ multiagent systems, which consist of a set of intelligent …

This chapter introduces the topic of this book by presenting the fields of supply chain
management, multiagent systems, and the merger of these two fields into multiagent-based …

Over the years, competitions have been important catalysts for progress in Artificial
Intelligence. We describe one such competition, the Trading Agent Competition for Supply …