Intelligent policy recommendations on enterprise resource planning by the use of agent technology and data mining techniques

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-602

  Symeonidis, Andreas L ^a,b   Kehagias, Dionisis D ^a,b   Mitkas, Pericles A ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent training; Customer Relationship Management; Data mining; Multi agent systems; Supply Chain Management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 0043011156     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(03)00099-X     Document Type: Article

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