Design of an intelligent agent-based supply chain simulation system

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1836-1841

  Wang, Yucheng ^b   Fang, Liping ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RAW MATERIALS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; COMPONENT MANUFACTURERS; PRODUCT ASSEMBLERS; SUPPLY CHAIN ENTITY;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 40949083879     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4414189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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