— In this paper, the problem of optimizing the performances of a distributed supply chain is faced by means of a decentralized architecture. In particular, a general scheme for a...
Despite the extensive use of the agent technology in the Supply Chain Management field, its integration with Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tools still represents a promis...
Luis Antonio de Santa-Eulalia, Sophie D'Amours, Je...
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Supply chains are a central element of today’s global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global compet...
Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, James Andrews, ...
In this paper, we propose a real time scheduling policy over 802.11 DCF protocol called Deadline Monotonic (DM). We evaluate the performance of this policy for a simple scenario w...