Autonomy versus Efficiency in Management of Large-scale Logistics Networks
| Authors: | Bielli Maurizio, National Research Council, Italy
Villa Agostino, Polytechnics of Turin, Italy
Mecoli Mariagrazia, National Research Council, Italy |
|---|
| Topic: | 5.1 Manufacturing Plant Control |
|---|
| Session: | Plant-wide Production Planning and Control Issues |
|---|
| Keywords: | Autonomy, Efficiency, Multi-agents, Logistics, Networks |
|---|
Abstract
Present evolution of logistics networks is characterized by a progressive increase of the network complexity and the opportunity of organizing management structures composed by local decision-makers (usually denoted “agents”). As much the system complexity and the number of intelligent agents grow, as much the system response uncertainty seems to grow also: this suggests to have greater attention to the agents autonomy and responsibility. Present paper first aims to verify if the increasing complexity of actual logistics systems is going to allow a greater and greater autonomy to individual agents.
