Abstract

Hiring workers under seasonal recruiting contracts causes significant variation of workers skills in the vineyards. This leads to inconsistent workers performance, reduction in harvesting efficiency, and increasing in grape losses rates. The objective of this research is to investigate how the variation in workers experience could impact vineyard harvesting productivity and operational cost. The complexity of the problem means that it is difficult to analyze the system parameters and their relationships using individual analytical model. Hence, a hybrid model integrating discrete event simulation (DES) and agent based modeling (ABM) is developed and applied on a vineyard to achieve research objective. DES models harvesting operation and simulates process performance, while ABM addresses the seasonal workers heterogeneous characteristics, particularly experience variations and disparity of working days in the vineyard. The model is used to evaluate two seasonal recruiting policies against vineyard productivity, grape losses quantities, and total operational cost.


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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wsc.2016.7822213
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wsc/wsc2016.html#MesabbahMRA16,
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=buschmarcon,
https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3042302&ftid=1835185&dwn=1,
https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2016.7822213,
https://arrow.dit.ie/buschmarcon/153,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2579482447
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Published on 01/01/2017

Volume 2017, 2017
DOI: 10.1109/wsc.2016.7822213
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