Design and development of a flexible workflow supply chain system

Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology:

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 792-796

  Lau, H C W ^a   Ning, A ^a   Chan, F T S ^b   Ip, R W L ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Multi agent; Supply chain; Worrkflow design; Worwow modeling

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DESIGN; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION FLOWS; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; MULTI-AGENT METHODOLOGIES; SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 1542318725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMIT.2000.916805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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