Reengineering, simulation and data analysis of an RFID system

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-29

  Bottani, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Data analysis; EPC; RFID; Simulation; Warehouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949105809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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