Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Hello- Few questions about Swarm applications to SCM

[Paul Johnson]

Dr. Béla Pátkai wrote:

> Hi Yogeshwar,
>
> Yes, it is possible to model and simulate Supply Chains with Swarm, 
> some packages have been developed for this purpose. Those three I know 
> of are:
>
> I. Fu-Ren Lin, Troy J. Strader, Michael J.Shaw developed a supply 
> chain simulator for Swarm in Objective-C. If you are a C programmer 
> this may be interesting for you (as far as I can tell C code is easy 
> to wrap into objc classes). They published a paper on it in the first 
> Swarm book "Economic Simulations in Swarm - Agent-Based Modelling and 
> Object Oriented Programming", the paper is "Using Swarm for Simulating 
> the Order Fulfillment Process in Divergent Assembly Supply Chains". 
> The code is probably available on the swarm ftp, at least I have it on 
> my hard drive from somewhere.
If you--or anybody--do have a full working copy of that Lin, Stradler, 
and Shaw code, please send it to me and I'll make sure it goes into the 
swarm archives.  As of now, the code that is provided is incomplete.  It 
has the h and m files, but it does not have the data files that are 
required to actually run a simulation.

A student in China has been corresponding with me about that model 
during the last semester and it was a somewhat frustrating experience to 
learn we did not have all of the moving parts

pj

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