FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Modelling and Simulating Enterprises with Multiagent Systems Technologies (MAS)
Suggested By: Oscar Lin
Last Update: May 14th, 2025

Effective supply chain management is critical to the success of any business. Multiagent systems have been long utilized for modelling supply chain scenarios.  For example, the model explicitly considered the various supply chain activities, in addition to intra refinery supply chain activities (Virtual enterprise) including procurement, scheduling and operations management.  By modelling the manufacturing or supply chain process, it allows the user to simulate and analyze different configurations, influences, uncertainties, etc. This project is to use multiagent simulation to model and simulate the processes related to the Virtual Enterprise and supply chain to to investigate optimal project scheduling and evaluate overall performance.