Cooperative capacity planning and resource allocation by mutual outsourcing using ant algorithm in a decentralized supply chain

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2831-2842

  Wang, Kung Jeng ^a   Chen, M J ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ant algorithm; Capacity planning; Negotiation and cooperation; Outsourcing; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ANT ALGORITHMS; CAPACITY PLANNING; DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAINS; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; NEGOTIATION AND COOPERATION; NON-LINEAR MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PRIVATE INFORMATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 56349096267     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.089     Document Type: Article

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