Agent Mertacor: A robust design for dealing with uncertainty and variation in SCM environments

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 591-603

  Chatzidimitriou, Kyriakos C ^a   Symeonidis, Andreas L ^a,b   Kontogounis, Ioannis ^a   Mitkas, Pericles A ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent intelligence; Autonomous trading agents; Electronic commerce; Machine learning; Supply Chain Management

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MECHANICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DYNAMIC MARKETS; ELSEVIER (CO); IN ORDER; PROFIT-POTENTIAL; ROBUST DESIGNS; SCHEMAS; SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM); TRADING AGENT COMPETITION (TAC); VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION (VO);

DYNAMICS;

EID: 44949233210     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.07.050     Document Type: Article

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