Research On Negotiation Mechanism Of The Automotive Supply Chains Based On Multi-Agent System

The development of IT and economic globalization has raised new challengesand opportunities for supply chain management. The automotive supply chainmanagement is a complex supply chain management of distributed featureshighlight and plays a very important role in the development process of the entireautomotive industry, and increasingly subject to the attention of operators andmanagers. The global manufacturing of the automotive industry has increased thedynamic nature of distributed automotive supply chain system and the complexityof interaction, coordination and collaboration between the member companies,which affect the entire supply chain agility and lean. Therefore, the negotiationresearch among automotive supply chain members is the key that MAS(Multi-Agent System) achieve coordination, collaboration, conflict resolving andcontradiction handling. For the flexibility and the timeliness which the automotivesupply chain responds to customer needs, the paper introduced supply chainmanagement and game theory as the theoretical background, used multi-agenttechnology to build the multi-agent system framework of automotive supply chain.It focuses on multi-agent concurrent negotiation problem, by analyzing the effect ofcredibility in the system on consultation and cooperation in order to provide aneffective intelligent consultation method for complex supply chain and a partnerselection way. Above, this paper carried out the following research:(1) Negotiation as one of the core issues of the MAS research is to achieve thewin-win situation for agents. The paper analyses the significance and status ofconsultation mechanism and the multi-agent system for supply chains, focuses onrelated theories and technologies about multi-agent negotiation in MAS.(2) Analysis of the negotiation characteristics and the need for flexible andcooperative relations established in the automotive supply chain, based on theexisting multi-agent system modeling idea to construct the framework ofmulti-agent system model of the automotive supply chain. In order to complete thesupply chain modeling to make agent role differentiation by reference to the SCOR(Supply Chain Operations Reference-model), describe negotiation links amongagent members and agent basic structure.(3) According to the established multi-agent automotive supply chain model, provide the multilateral multi-issue concurrent negotiation model based on agentbargaining game. Specifically addressed the agent bargaining negotiation protocolsand the proposed evaluation strategy and clear the game process for negotiatingagents, meanwhile through a concrete instance of the model analysis to verify theconcurrent negotiation model.(4) Based on the agent simulation platform JADE (Java Agent DevelopmentFramework), discuss the distributed implementation structure of the multi-agentsystems in the automotive supply chain, and analysis operation process of theconcurrent negotiation model by the above instance based on the applicationdevelopment framework.Finally, summarizes the research content and gives some prospect for thefuture research in the field of studying the concurrent negotiation mechanism basedon multi-agent for the automotive supply chain.