Ricerc@Sapienza

Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a key for implementing circular economy. Through IS, wastes produced by one company are used as inputs by other companies. The operations of IS suffers from uncertainty barriers since wastes are not produced upon demand but emerge as secondary outputs. Such an uncertainty, triggered by waste supply-demand quantity mismatch, influences IS business dynamics. Accordingly, companies have difficulty to foresee potential costs and benefits of implementing IS.

This paper investigates the negotiation phase of industrial symbiosis relationships, where companies exchanging wastes for inputs need to develop strategies on how to share the additional costs to operate the industrial symbiosis business. The business behavior is approached as a “coopetition” problem where companies need to cooperate to reduce waste discharge costs and traditional input purchase costs and dive into competition to pay a minimum share of additional costs (i.e., waste treatment, waste transportation, and transaction costs) of operating industrial symbiosis.

L’industria delle costruzioni, attanagliata da una persistente crisi, ha nelle opportunità date dalla rivoluzione digitale l’occasione di efficientare l’intero comparto. Tali opportunità non sono insite tanto negli strumenti, quanto nelle innovative metodologie di gestione dei processi, legate agli sviluppi delle tecniche di intelligenza artificiale. Nell’articolo si presenta dunque l’elaborazione di un prototipo di integrazione tra Agenti autonomi e BIM: il risultato è la simulazione di alternative progettuali, a seconda delle diverse possibilità di ottimizzare le risorse a disposizione.