Modeling of Biological Intelligence for SCM System Optimization

• Published in: Computational and mathematical methods in medicine Vol. 2012; no. 2012; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Chen, Sheng-yong, Zheng, Yujun, Cattani, Carlo, Wang, Wanliang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Puplishing Corporation 01.01.2012; Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Ants; Biological Evolution; Intelligence; Models, Biological; Review
• ISSN: 1748-670X; 1748-6718; 1748-6718
• DOI: 10.1155/2012/769702

This article summarizes some methods from biological intelligence for modeling and optimization of supply chain management (SCM) systems, including genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, differential evolution, swarm intelligence, artificial immune, and other biological intelligence related methods. An SCM system is adaptive, dynamic, open self-organizing, which is maintained by flows of information, materials, goods, funds, and energy. Traditional methods for modeling and optimizing complex SCM systems require huge amounts of computing resources, and biological intelligence-based solutions can often provide valuable alternatives for efficiently solving problems. The paper summarizes the recent related methods for the design and optimization of SCM systems, which covers the most widely used genetic algorithms and other evolutionary algorithms.