Mobile agent technology and application for online global logistic services

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 169-183

  Trappey, Amy J C ^a   Trappey, Charles V ^b   Hou, Jiang Liang ^a   Chen, Bird J G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Logistics management; Real time scheduling; Services

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; INVENTORY CONTROL; INVESTMENTS; SCHEDULING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GLOBAL LOGISTIC SERVICES; LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY; REAL TIME SCHEDULING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2342418969     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570410522143     Document Type: Article

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