Simultaneous Auctions in Transport Planning of Multiple Derivatives of Oil in Multi-Modals Networks

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In supply chains of the petroleum industry, maintaining balancing between production and consuming of multiple products of petroleum derivatives is a crucial issue. Basically, this chain has several elements like producer bases, consumer bases, intermediary terminals that are linked by means of a multi-modal transport network. These elements should cooperate to reach the global balance of the system with the best transport cost. In this context, this paper proposes and compares two solutions based on auctions carry out with agents, which represent the elements of a supply chain. These solutions are characterized respectively for the execution of sequential auctions (i.e. one auction per time) and simultaneous auctions in order to consumers bid for batches of different kinds of petroleum derivatives. In the comparative tests carried out, the solution based on simultaneous auction is better than sequential one mainly because of the more intense cooperation among the agents.

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42º Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional (SBPO), 2010, Bento Gonçalves
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