An Extension to the Contract-Net Protocol Applied to the Transport Planning Problem of Oil Products

In supply chains of petroleum industry, maintaining a proper inventory level for multiple petroleum products is a crucial issue. Basically, this chain has several elements like producer bases, consumer bases and terminals that are linked by means of a multi-modal transport network. These elements mu...

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Main Authors: Banaszewski, Roni F., Nogueira, K. E., Simão, J. M., Arruda, L. V., Tacla, C. A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
auction
Computational modeling
Conferences
Educational institutions
multi-agent
oil derivatives
Planning
Proposals
Protocols
transport
Waste materials
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Summary:In supply chains of petroleum industry, maintaining a proper inventory level for multiple petroleum products is a crucial issue. Basically, this chain has several elements like producer bases, consumer bases and terminals that are linked by means of a multi-modal transport network. These elements must cooperate to achieve the global goal of the system with a minimized cost. To achieve this goal, this paper presents a multiagent protocol for simultaneous negotiations based on the Contract-Net and the application of this in the chain aforementioned. As a result, this protocol proved to be very efficient to return a feasible solution in a low processing time.
DOI:10.1109/WESAAC.2011.28