Agents in logistics and supply chain

Abstract

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.