Using intelligent agents to understand management practices and retail productivity

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2212-2220

  Siebers, Peer Olaf ^a   Aickelin, Uwe ^a   Celia, Helen ^b   Clegg, Chris W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETAIL STORES; SALES;

CASE STUDIES; COMPLEX DOMAINS; DEPARTMENT STORE; HUMAN RESOURCES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MODELING AND SIMULATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 49749141621     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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