An agent-based model for analyzing the impact of business interoperability on the performance of cooperative industrial networks
Authored by Izunildo Cabral, Antonio Grilo, Antonio Goncalves-Coelho, Antonio Mourao
Date Published: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2015.08.001
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Abstract
This paper presents an approach for analyzing the impact of business
interoperability on the performance of cooperative industrial networks.
The analysis of the impact is grounded on the agent-based simulation
method. A theoretical agent-based model is proposed to simulate the
manner in which companies interoperate in cooperative industrial
networks and how the distance between the actual and the required level
of business interoperability in different dyad relationships can affect
the performance of these companies. To test the applicability of the
proposed theoretical agent-based model, a case study regarding a dam
construction project is presented. The objective of the case study is to
analyze the impact of the introduction of a Radio Frequency
Identification system and a cooperative information system platform, first on the business interoperability performance and then on the
operational performance of a the companies involved in the dam
construction project. The application of the theoretical agent-based
simulation model to this case study supports our assumption that indeed, agent-based simulation is appropriate for achieving the objective set.
Regarding to the case study results, the main benefits of the
introduction of the cooperative information systems platform are the
reduction of the time needed to analyze the slump and compression test
results, which can be reduced up to 98\%. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All
rights reserved.
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Management
Ontology
Supply chains
enterprise integration
architecture
Projects
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Construction-industry
Information-systems
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