Agent-based simulation of competitive and collaborative mechanisms for mobile service chains

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-240

  Jiang, Guoyin ^a,b   Hu, Bin ^a   Wang, Youtian ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Agent evolution algorithm; Collaborative mechanism; Competitive mechanism; Mobile service chains; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

ACCESS SERVICE; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT EVOLUTION; AGENT EVOLUTION ALGORITHM; COLLABORATIVE MECHANISM; COLLABORATIVE MODEL; COMPETITIVE MECHANISM; COMPETITIVE MECHANISMS; DECISION MAKERS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOW LEVEL; MOBILE SERVICE; MOBILE SERVICE CHAINS; MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDERS; PRODUCT SERVICE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PROFITABILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350616195     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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