Technical Paper:
Designing Multi-Agent Simulation with Big Time Series Data for a Global Supply Chain System
Kenji Tanaka*, Shen-Ming Gu**, and Jing Zhang**,†
*Department of System Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
**School of Mathematics, Physics and Information Science, Zhejiang Ocean University
No.1, Haida South Road, Lincheng, Changzhi Island, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316022, P.R. China
†Corresponding author,
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