Protocolo de Leilões Simultâneos com Escalonamento: Aplicação ao Problema de Planejamento de Movimentações de Derivados de Petróleo

In supply chains of the petroleum industry, fulfill demand and maintain an adequate inventory level for multiple classes of petroleum products is a crucial issue. Basically, this kind of chain consists of several elements like producer bases, consumer bases and terminals that are linked by 1 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial (CPGEI) Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) Av. Sete de Setembro, 3165 – CEP 80230-901 – Curitiba PR Brasil {ronifabio,kelvin.elton}@gmail.com,{jeansimao,lvrarruda,tacla}@ utfpr.edu.br Protocolo de Leilões Simultâneos com Escalonamento: Aplicação ao Problema de Planejamento de Movimentações de Derivados de Petróleo RITA • Volume 19 • Número 1 • 2012 47 means of a multi-modal transport network to provide the transference of products among the bases. These elements must cooperate to achieve a feasible solution with a low processing time. To achieve this goal, this paper presents a multi-agent auction protocol for simultaneous negotiations with a scheduler element. This protocol was applied to the aforementioned supply chain, behaving efficiently to return a feasible solution in a low processing time.