Reinforcement learning for procurement agents of the factory of the future

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1331-1337

  Simsek, Burak ^a   Albayrak, Sahin ^a   Korth, Alexander ^a  

^a Sekretariat GOR1 1 ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY (AOT); REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM);

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344617867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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