Designing a virtual enterprise architecture using structured system dynamics

Human Systems Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-29

  Assimakopoulos, Nikitas A ^a   Riggas, Anastasios N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS)

^c Hellenic Operational Reaserch Society (HELORS)

Author keywords

I Think ; PSM; SAST; System Dynamics; Virtual Enterprises

Indexed keywords

SYSTEM DYNAMICS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33644747388     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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