Building a Multi-Agent System for Emergency Logistics Collaborative Decision

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Currently, the decision making of emergency logistics is faced with increasing challenges caused by deficient information, uncertain requirement and shortest response time. Agent-based modeling and multi-agent system have been proved as a promising ways in this field. Based on the previous work of emergency logistics decision framework, this paper presents a detailed design of agent internal structure of the emergency logistics multi-agent system. Some typical agents, such as logistics entity agent, task distribution agent and ontology visiting agent, are discussed from the composed function modules to the specific implementation. As the illustrative examples, the design of these primary agents can characterizes the basic structure of another agent in the emergency logistics multi-agent system, and it will be considered as the effective reference for system implementation.

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