Distributed decision making for supply chain risk assessment

摘要

A method for determining supply chain risks is provided. The method including the steps of: providing a plurality of data locations, each data location having an agent and data elements; performing distributed data mining by each of the agents using the data elements at the respective data location to produce a candidate decision for the respective location; determining a global decision from the candidate decisions, the global decision covering the data elements at all of the data locations; and generating predictive risk scores for the data elements from the global decision.