Artificial-life based Food-chain Algorithm and Application to Supply-chain Operation Management

摘要

Based on artificial life principle of "Bottom to Up Model" and the food-chain phenomena in ecology, we proposed a new type of Artificial - life based Algorithm. It is referred as Food-chain Algorithm. Then the algorithm is applied to solve the supply - chain operation management problems of partner selection and their product capacity in the enterprise alliance. Both the enterprise alliance how to select its partners to form enterprise alliance and member enterprises how to adjust their product capacity to meet the future market demands can be simulated by the food chain algorithm. The algorithm effectively figures out the above problems with distributed characters. Furthermore the algorithm can be applied to others problems of supply-chain management like the location-allocation problem.