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Agents technology is popular in many different scientific area. One of them is logistics and supply chain. Agent is characterized by many features, as: mobility and intelligence, autonomy, the ability to monitor the environment at all times. Authors in this article focus on aspect of agents in logistics and supply chain. In this area 3 types of agents can be distinguished: searching agents, monitoring agents and managing agents. Describing the agents topic author decided to present basic information about Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) and Agent Based Simulation (ABS), which are used in logistics also. In this article are presented examples of using each mentioned method of simulation in logistics area.
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The work was carried out as part of the POIR.01.01.01-00-0485/17 project, “Development of a new type of logistic trolley and methods of collision-free and deadlock-free implementation of intralogistics processes”, financed by NCBiR.
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Hoffa-Dabrowska, P., Kluska, K. (2018). Agents in Logistics and Supply Chain. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_15
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