Computers play the beer game: Can artificial agents manage supply chains?

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-333

  Kimbrough, Steven O ^a   Wu, D J ^b   Zhong, Fang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial agents; Automated supply chains; Beer game; Bullwhip effect; Genetic algorithms

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BEER GAME; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036643207     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00019-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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