Virtual enterprise coalition strategy with game theoretic multi-agent paradigm

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 513-516

  Kaihara, T ^a   Fujii, S ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agent; Coordination; Decision making

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MULTI-AGENT PROGRAMMING; NEGOTIATION ALGORITHM; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE (VE);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33750057712     PISSN: 00078506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60471-5     Document Type: Article

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