Capacity allocation to sales agents in a decentralized logistics network

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 796-810

  Demirag, Ozgun Caliskan ^a   Swann, Julie L ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology

Author keywords

Heuristics; Incentives; Sea cargo industry; Transportation

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SALES; TRANSPORTATION;

CAPACITY ALLOCATION; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM; SEA CARGO INDUSTRY;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 34948825412     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20254     Document Type: Article

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