A-team based supply chain management agent architecture

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 801-823

  Zheng, Yujun ^a   Wang, Jinquan ^b   Xue, Jinyun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b Systems Engineering Institute of Engineer Equipment   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agent; Architecture; Asynchronous team (A Team); Constraint satisfaction; Evolution; Problem solving; Supply chain management (SCM)

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; AGENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE; COMPONENT-BASED PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTION PROBLEM; INFORMATION FLOWS; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; NONDOMINATED SOLUTIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED; PROBLEM SOLVING AGENTS; REAL-WORLD; SCM SYSTEMS; TEAM-BASED;

COORDINATION REACTIONS; LOGISTICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REUSABILITY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 75149144420     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021821300900041X     Document Type: Article

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