CHAINME: fast decentralized finding of better supply chains

Decentralized Supply Chain Formation (SCF) appears as a highly intricate task because agents only possess local information, have limited knowledge about the capabilities of other agents, and prefer to preserve privacy. State-of-theart decentralized SCF approaches can either: (i) find Supply Chains (SC) of high value at the expense of high resources usage; or (ii) find SCs of low value with low resources usage. This work presents chainme, a novel decentralized SCF algorithm. Our results show that chainme finds SCs with higher value than state-of-the-art decentralized algorithms whilst decreasing the amount of resources required from one up to four orders of magnitude.