The enhancement of solving the distributed constraint satisfaction problem for cooperative supply chains using multi-agent systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 795-810

  Lin, Fu ren ^a   Kuo, Hui chun ^b   Lin, Shyh ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Distributed constraint satisfaction problem; Distributed scheduling problem; Genetic algorithm; Multi agent systems; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MECHANISMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING PROBLEM; GENETIC ALGORITHM;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 53349177370     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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