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The increasing concentration on core competencies in the production industry leads to production networks. The ability to react properly and immediately to changes in demand as well as to technical and organisational disturbances requires a suitable decision support system within the network. In this paper a simulation based decision support environment is introduced. It consists of a High Level Architecture (HLA) application for coupling of simulation tools, in which simulation models of suppliers, transportation agencies and a final producer are integrated as decentralised acting partners. Furthermore an agent based control for coupled simulation models is introduced. The software agents react to changes within the simulated production network. A simplified simulated production network for an assembly of motor-car serves as an example to illustrate this approach.
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Seliger, G., Ciupek, M. (2000). Simulation of Agent-Based Controlled Production Networks by Distributed Simulation Models. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Erbe, HH. (eds) Advances in Networked Enterprises. BASYS 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 53. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35529-0_44
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