Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Hello- Few questions about Swarm applications to SCM

[Vitorino RAMOS]

Hi Yogeshwar:

Well, this really depends on what kind of paradigmatic approach you may 
want to use, in order to solve supply chain problems.
This does not depend at all on the SWARM software.
If it is a distributed one, e.g. MAS Multi-agent systems , Swarm 
Intelligence or else, there is quite good chances that the SWARM platform 
may help you out.

For instance, a manufacturer, one retailer and customers may be viewed as 
edges in one big network, where agents meet and evolve.
You could also look at the problem, as a combinatorial optimization 
problem, solved by distributed ant-like-agents: Have a look here:

http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org/publications.html#SOP

http://www.idsia.ch/~luca/has-sop.html

http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org/publications.html#SCH

Anyway, after determining what conceptual approach you may wish to follow, 
you can really undertake to code it over SWARM.
Many of its features and libraries are quite universal 
(http://www.swarm.org/swarmdocs-2.2/set/set.html), and can overcome your 
conceptual translation.

Best, v.

~ v. ramos. http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/,
[...] Interactions among many sporuliferous and ubiquitous abstractions may 
lead to increasing reality [...], Vitorino Ramos, 2001.





At 19:36 26-01-2006, you wrote:
> Hi List,
>         Greetings.My name is Yogeshwar & I am a Graduate student at the
> University of Illinois, Chicago. I came to know about this
> software few
> days back. I have few questions about its applications. It would be great
> if you could answer these questions.
>
> 1. Can I use this software for simulating a Supply Chain. Say, I want to
> design the information flow of Supply chain with one supplier, one
> manufacturer, one retailer and one customer for one product Type ?
>
> I have tried doing it with ARENA but its not useful. So please answer this
> question.
>
> 2. I am new to this software, I tried looking into your "applications" and
> "help" sections for Swarm but couldn't find what I wanted. Please guide
> me, If I want to use Swarm for Supply Chain Simulation, How should I go
> about it( Downloading and Installing which package, its not clear). I
> would like to use C language for coding.
>
> Thank you very much for your valuable time.
>
> Sincerely,
> Yogeshwar
>
>
> Yogeshwar D. Suryawanshi
>
> Graduate Student
> Industrial Engineering,
> Uni of Illinois,Chicago
> Cell :312-479-7825
>
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