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Circulation of Autonomous Agents in Production and Service Networks

Gallay, Olivier
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Hongler, Max-Olivier  
2009
International Journal of Production Economics

The inherent complexity characterizing the production and/or service networks strongly favors decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms to regulate the flows of matter and information in circulation. This basic observation motivates us to study the flow dynamics in queueing networks roamed by autonomous agents which, at a given time and at a given vertex location, select their routing according to (individual) historical data (such as waiting times) collected during their past progression in the network. For several simple networks configurations and despite to the intrinsically non- Markovian character of the dynamics, we are able to analytically discuss the emerging collective dynamics that such a circulation of autonomous agents generates. Feedback loops in the network topology coupled with the presence of delays in the routing selection mechanisms produce a wealth of dynamical phenomena like self-sustained generically stable oscillations, spatio-temporal patterns, stabilization by noise phenomena and oscillators synchronization that are explicitly discussed in this paper.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.01.012
Web of Science ID

WOS:000270078800010

Author(s)
Gallay, Olivier
Hongler, Max-Olivier  
Date Issued

2009

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
International Journal of Production Economics
Volume

120

Start page

378

End page

388

Subjects

queueing networks

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production and service systems

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autonomous agents

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history-based routing decisions

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non-Markovian dynamics

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spatio-temporal patterns generation

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self-sustained oscillations

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stabilization by noise

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competition between servers

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September 12, 2007
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/12089
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