Agent-based project scheduling

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 387-401

  Knotts, Gary ^a   Dror, Moshe ^a   Hartman, Bruce C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AGENT BASED SYSTEMS; PRIORITY RULES;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0033894478     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007666324223     Document Type: Article

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