Agent-based simulation for evaluating flexible and agile business processes: Separating knowledge rules, process rules and information resources

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 63 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 41-58

  Gong, Yiwei ^a   Janssen, Marijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based Simulation; Agility; Business Process Management; Flexibility

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGILITY; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; FLEXIBILITY; HUMAN RESOURCES; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE RULES; SYSTEM DESIGN;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 78149313853     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15723-3_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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