Internet scheduling environment with market-driven agents

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 281-289

  Yen, Benjamin P C ^a   Wu, Owen Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent; Distributed resource collaboration; Internet scheduling environment; Market based control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INTERNET; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION; WORK-REST SCHEDULES;

DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE COLLABORATION; FLEXIBLE JOB SHOP SCHEDULING SYSTEM; INTERNET SCHEDULING ENVIRONMENT; MARKET-DRIVEN AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 1542605225     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.822273     Document Type: Letter

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