A systemic approach for modeling virtual enterprise's management features

Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 87-101

  Assimakopoulos, Nikitas A ^a   Theodosi, Aggeliki D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Enterprise Modeling; PSM; SAST; SSM; Systems Approach; TSI; Virtual Enterprise

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLANNING; SERVERS;

PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHODOLOGY (PSM); SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY (SSM); VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 2942630096     PISSN: 15606686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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