Modelling and simulation of MRP II activities in multi agent systems

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-34

  Turgay, S ^a   Kubat, C ^b   Taskin H ^b  

^a Abant Zzet Baysal University   (Turkey)

^b SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

MRP II; Multi agent system; Petri net; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS; PURCHASING;

COMPLEX SYSTEM STRUCTURE; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; MRP II;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847049071     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280600940663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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