Agent-based negotiation and decision making for dynamic supply chain formation

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1046-1055

  Wang, Minhong ^a   Wang, Huaiqing ^b   Vogel, Doug ^b   Kumar, Kuldeep ^c   Chiu, Dickson K W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Dickson Computer System   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Constraint satisfaction; Coordination; Distributed decision making; Negotiation; Quality of service (QoS); Software agent; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING; NEGOTIATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOFTWARE AGENTS; STEELMAKING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 70149095252     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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