Vertical Collaboration in a Two-Level Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Collaboration in the supply chain is nowadays seen in the scientific community as the “next best thing” in supply chain optimization (Ballot, 2015; Barratt & Oliveira, 2001; Barratt, 2004; Ireland & Bruce, 2000). Although widely investigated and often mentioned in literature, the concept of supply chain collaboration is not precisely defined ...

Dealing with carbon credit points in city logistics domain: An agent-based modeling approach to implement carbon market based mechanisms derived from Kyoto Protocol

Exploration of paths leading to major power war

Exploring biogas stakeholder interaction in the Netherlands: An Agent Based Modeling approach to explore location specific biogas system performance under different scenarios

Biogas networks can reduce CO2 emissions by replacing natural gas consumption with biogas consumption. This means that biogas production can contribute to the Dutch targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% and increase renewable energy production to 16% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. It is unclear how the biogas infrastructure system will...

An Exploratory Model to Investigate the Dynamics of the World Energy System: A Biophysical Economics Perspective

Energy is inherent part of our current life. No one can imagine living without it. It has changed the lifestyle of people and it will continue to do so in future. About 80% of current global total primary energy supply belongs to non-renewable resources. It is also expected that non-renewable resources dominate in total primary energy supply in...

Secret Agents: An exploratory study to the added value of Agent-Based modeling to the Strategic Geopolitical Intelligence process of NATO state intelligence services

The events of the Arab spring reminds us how individual citizens have the power to overthrow powerful regimes and destabilize complete regions. The dynamics of such bottom-up instigated revolutions seem to be in line with the (Social) Constructivism paradigm. The problem though, is that this paradigm lacks a powerful forecasting method that...

Deployment of distributed generation: Using agent-based modeling to explore the relationship between social and environmental criteria on uptake

Technical, social and environmental developments are driving energy system stakeholders to reexamine how their energy needs are met. The conventional method of building large centralized generators to meet a community's energy needs is being questioned as smaller energy sources become more efficient and economical. These smaller sources,...

An Agent-Based Model to Support Negotiation-Based Order Acceptance in a Multi-Plant Enterprise

Order acceptance decisions have a significant influence on the short- and long-term performance of a firm. Firms, therefore, should make complex order acceptance decisions with regard to their organizational goals in an effective way. Models are called for to provide insight for decision-makers in developing proper strategies for order...

Technology diffusion in the Westland: An informed Agent Based approach

Julia Kasmire is writing her PhD dissertation on technology transitions in the Westland greenhouse area. She is looking whether Universal Darwinism (UD) can explain these processes and could lead to could policy recommendations. As a prelude to her research this report focuses on, the less ground braking, technology diffusion in the Westland...