A novel time advancing mechanism for agent-oriented supply chain simulation

Journal of Computers

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1301-1308

  Xu, Xu ^a   Lin, Jie ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agent; Distributed simulation; High level architecture; Supply chain; Time management

Indexed keywords

AGENT-ORIENTED; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS; HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE; KEYPOINTS; MULTI-AGENT; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION; TIME ADVANCE; TIME MANAGEMENT; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650911395     PISSN: 1796203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jcp.4.12.1301-1308     Document Type: Article

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