Design and development of agent-based procurement system to enhance business intelligence

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 877-884

  Lee, C K M ^a   Lau, H C W ^b   Ho, G T S ^b   Ho, William ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent and data management system; Case based reasoning; OLAP; Price negotiation; Procurement data processing

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; COMPETITION; CONSTRUCTION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PHASE SHIFTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PURCHASING; RAW MATERIALS; SALES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGENT AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; CASE BASED REASONING; OLAP; PRICE NEGOTIATION; PROCUREMENT DATA PROCESSING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 53849093442     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.10.027     Document Type: Article

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