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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Hello- Few questions about Swarm applications to S
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Paul Johnson |
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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Hello- Few questions about Swarm applications to SCM |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:17:03 -0600 |
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Dr. Béla Pátkai wrote:
Hi Yogeshwar,
Yes, it is possible to model and simulate Supply Chains with Swarm,
some packages have been developed for this purpose. Those three I know
of are:
I. Fu-Ren Lin, Troy J. Strader, Michael J.Shaw developed a supply
chain simulator for Swarm in Objective-C. If you are a C programmer
this may be interesting for you (as far as I can tell C code is easy
to wrap into objc classes). They published a paper on it in the first
Swarm book "Economic Simulations in Swarm - Agent-Based Modelling and
Object Oriented Programming", the paper is "Using Swarm for Simulating
the Order Fulfillment Process in Divergent Assembly Supply Chains".
The code is probably available on the swarm ftp, at least I have it on
my hard drive from somewhere.
If you--or anybody--do have a full working copy of that Lin, Stradler,
and Shaw code, please send it to me and I'll make sure it goes into the
swarm archives. As of now, the code that is provided is incomplete. It
has the h and m files, but it does not have the data files that are
required to actually run a simulation.
A student in China has been corresponding with me about that model
during the last semester and it was a somewhat frustrating experience to
learn we did not have all of the moving parts
pj
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