Toward Leveraging Smart Logistics Collaboration with a Multi-Agent System Based Solution

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of collaboration between logistics objects. This collaboration aims to effectively plan, implement, and control the flow of services and goods between a point of origin and a point of destination while ensuring their secure, optimized, and efficient distributions to consumers anytime, anywhere. To this end, we propose a multi-agent based solution where the architecture of each agent includes concurrent individual and collective Belief-Desire-Intension (BDI) structures to support and balance self and collaborative objectives. Our solution, which is adapted and applied to the context of smart logistics, puts a special focus on the important issue of logistics risk management.