Building a holarchy using business process-oriented holonic (PrOH) modeling

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-40

  Clegg, Benjamin T ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business planning; Human factors; Modeling; Production management; Systems analysis and design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANUFACTURE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS PROCESS-ORIENTED HOLONIC MODELING;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845771763     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2006.886343     Document Type: Article

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