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The paper presents the application of Multiagent Based Simulation to analysis of supply chain behavior. As has been shown in the paper, agent oriented approach may be considered as a powerful conceptual framework for organization modeling and workbench for simulations of intra- and inter-organizational business processes. All of these theses have gradually been proved in the subsequent sections of the article. Firstly the agent paradigm has been presented as a toolbox for business modeling and complexity management. Then the classical model of supply chain simulation has been transformed to its agent-based version. Finally the case study presents how the agent model of the supply chain may be used in the process of bullwhip effect analysis based on the simulation experiment.
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Jakieła, J., Litwin, P., Olech, M. (2012). Multiagent Based Simulation as a Supply Chain Analysis Workbench. In: Nguyen, N.T. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29356-6_4
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