A multiagent systems approach for managing supply-chain problems: A learning perspective

2005 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS'05: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 454-459

  Carvalho, Rui ^a   Custódio, Luís ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agents; Artificial Intelligence; Learning; Multi agent Systems; Supply Chains

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PEER TO PEER; Q-LEARNING ALGORITHM; SUPPLY CHAINS (SC);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745279078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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