An agent-based approach to modelling virtual enterprises

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 3 SPEC., 2001, Pages 224-233

  Petersen, Sobah A ^a   Divitini, Monica ^a   Matskin, Mihhail ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Program Committees

Author keywords

Agents; Cooperative work; Enterprise modelling; Multi agent systems; Virtual enterprises

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0035323825     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095372801300107707     Document Type: Article

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