Pawan Kumar Singh Nain

Work place: School of Mechanical Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India

E-mail: pawan.nain@gmail.com

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5760-8912

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Biography

Pawan Kumar Singh Nain is a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. His academic and research experience spans more than twenty-five years, and he has worked in various capacities or roles at some of the most prestigious institutions of India. He received the gold medal for academic excellence in the undergraduate programme in Mechanical Engineering at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He received his M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He received British Telecom (U.K.) Fellowship for Ph.D. at IIT Kanpur. His area of interest is design and optimization. He has over 35 publications so far in the area of evolutionary algorithms, thermoelectric devices, and interdisciplinary research in optimization through the design of experiments. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).

Author Articles
A Hybrid MAS-CBR Framework with Optimization for Adaptive Supply Chain Design and Management

By Rajbala Pawan Kumar Singh Nain Avadhesh Kumar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2026.01.05, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2026

Global supply chains are increasingly characterized by complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability to disruptions, creating a pressing need for intelligent, adaptive systems that support decentralized decision-making and real-time control. This paper develops a new framework that integrates Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to address these challenges. The model leverages autonomous agents representing suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and coordinators that negotiate through defined protocols while embedding CBR mechanisms to retrieve and adapt historical supply chain cases for enhanced responsiveness. An optimization layer, guided by both agent heuristics and case-driven initial solutions, targets key objectives such as cost minimization, lead-time reduction, and resilience improvement. Simulation experiments were conducted under both static and dynamid environments with disruptions including supplier failures and demand fluctuations. Results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves convergence up to 34- 41% faster than heuristic-only baselines (p<0.05) and sustains solution quality with supply chain sizes increasing from 50 to 500 agents, indicating near-linear scalability. Comparative analysis further highlights adaptability in dynamic contexts and robustness under uncertainty. A case study illustrates practical deployment and validates its effectiveness. The findings provide evidence of a powerful synergy between MAS and CBR, with implications for next-generation supply chain intelligence.

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