This study was conducted to develop an agent-based computing platform enabling simulation of on-farm produce contamination by enteric foodborne pathogens, which is herein called PPMCS (Preharvest Produce Microbial Contamination Simulator). Also, fecal contamination of preharvest produce was simulated using PPMCS. Although Agent-based Modeling and Simulation, the tool applied in this study, is rather popular in where socio-economical human behaviors or ecological fate of animals in their niche are to be predicted, the incidence of on-farm produce contamination which are thought to be sporadic has never been simulated using this tool. The agents in PPMCS including crop, animal as a source of fecal contamination, and fly as a vector spreading the fecal contamination are given their intrinsic behaviors that are set to be executed at certain probability. Once all these agents are on-set following the intrinsic behavioral rules, consequences as the sum of all the behaviors in the system can be monitored real-time. When fecal contamination of preharvest produce was simulated in PPMCS as numbers of animals, flies, and initially contaminated plants change, the number of animals intruding cropping area affected most on the number of contaminated plants at harvest. For further application, the behaviors and variables of the agents are adjustable depending on user’s own scenario of interest. This feature allows PPMCS to be utilized in where different simulating conditions are tested.

Spare part management is very important to products that have large number of parts and long lifecycle such as automobile and aircraft. Supply chain must support immediate procurement for repair. However, it is not easy to handle spare parts efficiently due to huge stock keeping units. Qualified forecasting is the basis for the supply chain to achieve the goal. In this paper, we propose an agent based modeling approach that can deal with various factors simultaneously without mathematical modeling. Simulation results show that the proposed method is reasonable to describe demand generation process, and consequently, to forecast demand of spare parts in long-term perspective.

세계무역기구(WTO : World Trade Organization)를 설립된 이후 무역은 세계화가 되고, WTO에서 무역 장벽을 낮춰 국가 간의 경제 교류가 점점 증가하면서 국제적인 물류 시스템이 필요하게 되었다. 원가를 절감하기 위해 대랑 수송 수판으로 컨테이너선을 이용하면서 대형 컨테이너 선사들은 국제적인 물류 시스템의 대안으로 기업에게 화물추적 정보시스템의 제공이나 장비, 기기 관리를 위한 정보시스템 네트워크를 구축하여 자동화 시스템을 도입했다. 컨테이너 터미널 자동화를 위해 본 논문에서는 수시로 변경되는 정보를 인식하여 에이전트간의 정보교환을 위해 유동적으로 대처할 수 있는 XML(eXtensive Markup Language)과 JMS(Java Message Service)를 이용한 멀티에이전트간의 통신모델을 제안했다. 이 논문은 기존의 자동화한 컨테이너 터미널 시스템 사례와 자동화 시스템을 개발하는데 어려움, 컨테이너 터미널 시스템이 요구하는 통신과 자동화에 대하여 분석하였다.