An intelligent brokering system to support multi-agent web-based 4th-party logistics

Proceedings of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 154-164

  Lau, Hoong Chuin ^a   Goh, Yam Guan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EMARKET PLACE; INTELLIGENT BROKERING SYSTEM; MULTI-AGENT WEB-BASED FOURTH-PARTY LOGISTICS; SET PACKING PROBLEM; THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0036920186     PISSN: 10636730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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