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Nature inspired methods are a popular mean to control multiagent system (MAS) in logistic scenarios. Methods like pheromones or potential fields are used as primary control mechanism or for job assignment. Although empty runs are one of the main cost driver in logistics, this aspect is rarely considered in the job assignment procedures in logistic MAS. In this paper we introduce a combination of the...
The joined travelling of vehicles is an important instrument of cost reduction in the innovative RailCab concept. While the problem of joining groups of vehicles into convoys and determining convoy routes can be easily understood as optimization problem, the distributed nature and large number of vehicles and stops inhibits the direct application of operations research methods and problems. In this...
Real world problems, e.g. from transport domain, are typically non-deterministic and uncertain. Although many approaches, especially form the area of operations research assume constant parameters like ride duration or availability of connections in networks, these parameters depend on a large number of influences and are not constant. The paradigm of Bayesian thinking teaches us, that we can use...
In production networks companies need fast reactions due to changes of supply and demand. To realize such a change management in an effective way the involved companies have to synchronize their quantities and capacities collaboratively. For these purposes the multiagent system MASCOPP was developed at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, which tries to eliminate conflicts in a production network, based on...
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