DIMA – A Research Methodology for Comprehensive Multi-Disciplinary Modelling of Production and Logistics Networks

Dmitry Ivanov (1)

1 Economics

The paper presents a multi-disciplinary methodology DIMA (Decentralized Integrated Modeling Approach) for comprehensive modelling production and logistics networks. The DIMA allows implementing principle of throughout modeling “conceptual model  mathematical model  software”. In the paper, the DIMA is illustrated on the problem of collaborative network (CN) dynamical synthesis and reconfiguration. This problem is described in a comprehensive way on the conceptual and mathematical levels. This description allows interlinking synthesis and analysis issues of the CN planning and control taking into account system elements' activity, uncertainty factors, and structure dynamics. The paper reports a novel approach for comprehensive multi-disciplinary modeling distributed large-scale business systems with decentralized deci-sion making and control. In this paper, the main features of the DIMA are summarized based on recently de-veloped partial models and algorithms for a large spectrum of the CN management issues.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Dmitry Ivanov. DIMA – A Research Methodology for Comprehensive Multi-Disciplinary Modelling of Production and Logistics Networks. International Journal of Production Research, 2008, 47 (05), pp.1153-1173. ⟨10.1080/00207540701557205⟩. ⟨hal-00512997⟩