Circulation of Autonomous Agents in Production and Service Networks

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Title
Circulation of Autonomous Agents in Production and Service Networks
Journal
International Journal of Production Economics
Author(s)
Gallay O., Hongler M.-O.
ISSN
0925-5273
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2009
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
120
Number
2
Pages
378-388
Language
english
Abstract
The inherent complexity characterizing production and/or service networks strongly favors decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms to regulate the flows of matter and information in circulation. This basic observation motivates us to study the flow dynamics in queueing networks roamed by autonomous agents which, at a given time and at a given vertex location, select their routing according to (individual) historical data (such as waiting times) collected during their past progression in the network. For several simple network configurations and despite the intrinsically non-Markovian character of the dynamics, we are able to discuss analytically the emerging collective dynamics that such a circulation of autonomous agents generates. Feedback loops in the network topology coupled with the presence of delays in the routing selection mechanisms produce a wealth of dynamical phenomena like self-sustained generically stable oscillations, spatio-temporal patterns, stabilization by noise phenomena and oscillator synchronization that are explicitly discussed in this paper.
Keywords
Queueing networks, Production and service systems, Autonomous agents, History-based routing decisions, Self-organization
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