Dynamic multi-agent logistics operations

Research agenda
Multi-agent systems
Operations research
A research direction connecting routing, intralogistics, coordination, and fast online decision-making.
Published

July 27, 2026

Dynamic multi-agent logistics operations studies systems in which several decision-making entities interact while demand, resources, and operating conditions change.

These agents may include vehicles, vessels, drones, robots, order pickers, planners, charging infrastructure, terminals, and warehouses. Their interactions create questions about coordination, synchronization, handoffs, learning, optimization, and online execution.

Network perspective

The edge perspective examines movement, routing, dispatch, waiting, and service across a network. The node perspective examines storage, handling, picking, queues, and local decisions within logistics hubs.

This page will develop as the research agenda connecting these two perspectives.

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