Leitão, PauloBarbosa, José2018-04-052018-04-052015Leitão, Paulo; Barbosa, José (2015). Agent-based strategic planner for the production of samll lots of complex products: theoretical and practical perspectives. In XVII International Conference on Complex Systems: Control and Modeling Problems. Samara, Russiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/16705This paper presents a strategic planner that assists the decision-makers to take strategic decisions on short term to respond faster and efficiently to unexpected events in the ramp-up production of complex and highly customized products, namely in situations of peak of demand, late change requests and immature technology. This tool combines the flexibility of multi-agent systems with the optimization capability of mathematical optimization solvers. The application of the strategic planner is illustrated by playing iterative what-if games supporting implementation of mitigation strategies addressing a real use case of a peak demand of a specific product.engStrategic planningMulti-agent systemsMathematical optimization solverWhat-if gamesconference object