Integrating multi-agent negotiation to resolve constraints in fulfilling supply chain orders

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 313-322

  Lin, Fu ren ^a   Lin, You yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed constraint satisfaction problem (DCSP); Multi agent systems; Negotiation; Order fulfillment process; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM (DCSP); ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESS (OFP); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750322392     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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