AUTONOMIC SUPPLY CHAINS IN COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMIES

该项目将开发能够在高度动态的多利益攸关方环境中自动建立、维护和运营供应链的技术和方法。它还将专注于针对这种敏捷和动态环境的相关供应链业务模型。更详细地说，系统内的各种行为者都有自己的目的和目的，他们将被代表为在若干在线市场进行互动的自主软件代理，以便及时获得它们所需的货物和服务。这些市场也将作为自主代理，因此将调整它们的产品及其条款和条件，以吸引贸易商，并更好地将自己与类似的竞争市场区分开来。有鉴于此，随后的供应链将需要自主/自组织、自我修复和自我优化/以应对系统中存在的高度动态和不确定性。此外，通过不断适应变化，由此产生的计算经济将在敏捷性、交付期和盈利能力方面为所有参与者提供显著优势。为了提供这一愿景的具体说明，这项可行性研究将与劳斯莱斯的最终用户一起研究与发动机飞机维修和大修相关的供应链。

This project will develop techniques and methods that enable the automatic establishment, maintenance and operation of supply chains in highly dynamic, multi-stakeholder environments. It will also focus on the associated supply chain business models for such agile and dynamic environments. In more detail, the various actors within the system, each with their own aims and objectives, will be represented as autonomous software agents that interact in a number of on-line markets in order to procure the goods and services they require in a timely fashion. The markets will also be represented as autonomous agents and so will adapt their offerings and their terms and conditions in order to attract traders and better differentiate themselves from similar competing markets. Given this, the ensuing supply chains will need to be autonomic / self-organizing, selfhealing, and self-optimizing / in order to cope with the high degrees of dynamism and uncertainty that are present in the system. Moreover, through its continual adaptation in response to change, the resulting computational economy will offer significant advantages to all its participants in terms of agility, lead-times, and profitability. To provide a specific illustration of this vision, this feasibility study will examine the supply chain associated with engine aircraft repair and overhaul in conjunction with end-users at Rolls-Royce.