Q-learning in a competitive supply chain

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1211-1216

  Van Tongeren, Tim ^a   Kaymak, Uzay ^b   Naso, David ^c   Van Asperen, Eelco ^b  

^a Type2 Solutions ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL POLICY; Q-LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AGENTS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 40949095618     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4414132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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