Agent-based technological framework for dynamic configuration of a cooperative supply chain

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue , 2006, Pages 217-246

  Smirnov, Alexander V ^a   Sheremetov, Leonid B ^a,b   Chilov, Nikolai ^a   Sanchez Sanchez, Christian ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Constraint satisfaction; Cooperative supply chain; Fuzzy coalition games; Genetic algorithm; Multi agent environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249003686     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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