A flexible agent system for change adaptation in supply chains

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 603-618

  Ahn, Hyung Jun ^a   Lee, Habin ^b   Park, Sung Joo ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b PaiChai University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Agent; Change adaptation; Conversation policy; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 0042510130     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(03)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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