Multi-agent enabled modeling and simulation towards collaborative inventory management in supply chains

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1763-1771

  Fu, Yonghui ^a   Piplani, Rajesh ^a   De Souza, Robert ^b   Wu, Jingru ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Viewlocity   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM);

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0034427652     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2000.899167     Document Type: Article

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