Joint production and delivery scheduling in two-level supply chains: A distributed agent approach

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1522-1526

  Wan, Guohua ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Delivery scheduling; Distributed agent; Production scheduling; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

DELIVERY SCHEDULING; DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; PRODUCTION SCHEDULING; SUPPLY CHAIN;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 15744401430     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1399847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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