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Towards Autonomous Supply Chains: Definition, Characteristics, Conceptual Framework, and Autonomy Levels
Liming Xu, Stephen Mak, Yaniv Proselkov +1
Recent global disruptions, such as the pandemic and geopolitical conflicts, have profoundly exposed vulnerabilities in traditional supply chains, requiring exploration of more resi…
Fair collaborative vehicle routing: A deep multi-agent reinforcement learning approach
Stephen Mak, Liming Xu, Tim Pearce +2
Collaborative vehicle routing occurs when carriers collaborate through sharing their transportation requests and performing transportation requests on behalf of each other. This ac…
Coalitional Bargaining via Reinforcement Learning: An Application to Collaborative Vehicle Routing
Stephen Mak, Liming Xu, Tim Pearce +2
Collaborative Vehicle Routing is where delivery companies cooperate by sharing their delivery information and performing delivery requests on behalf of each other. This achieves ec…
On Implementing Autonomous Supply Chains: a Multi-Agent System Approach
Liming Xu, Stephen Mak, Maria Minaricova +1
Trade restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical conflicts have significantly exposed vulnerabilities within traditional global supply chains. These events underscore th…
Multi-Agent Digital Twinning for Collaborative Logistics: Framework and Implementation
Liming Xu, Stephen Mak, Stefan Schoepf +2
Collaborative logistics has been widely recognised as an effective avenue to reduce carbon emissions by enhanced truck utilisation and reduced travel distance. However, stakeholder…
Using Reinforcement Learning for the Three-Dimensional Loading Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
Stefan Schoepf, Stephen Mak, Julian Senoner +3
Heavy goods vehicles are vital backbones of the supply chain delivery system but also contribute significantly to carbon emissions with only 60% loading efficiency in the United Ki…
Accelerating Cutting-Plane Algorithms via Reinforcement Learning Surrogates
Kyle Mana, Fernando Acero, Stephen Mak +4
Discrete optimization belongs to the set of -hard problems, spanning fields such as mixed-integer programming and combinatorial optimization. A current standard appro…
Real-time large-scale supplier order assignments across two-tiers of a supply chain with penalty and dual-sourcing
Vinod Kumar Chauhan, Stephen Mak, Ajith Kumar Parlikad +3
Supplier selection and order allocation (SSOA) are key strategic decisions in supply chain management which greatly impact the performance of the supply chain. Although, the SSOA p…
Will bots take over the supply chain? Revisiting Agent-based supply chain automation
Liming Xu, Stephen Mak, Alexandra Brintrup
Agent-based systems have the capability to fuse information from many distributed sources and create better plans faster. This feature makes agent-based systems naturally suitable…