An agent based approach for exception handling in e-procurement management

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1174-1182

  Sun, Sherry X ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Wang, Huaiqing ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

E procurement; Exception handling; Intelligent agents; Web service

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; WEBSITES;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; E-PROCUREMENT; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM; EXCEPTION HANDLING; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS; SUPPLIER SELECTION; WEB SERVICE TECHNOLOGY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 81855166960     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.121     Document Type: Article

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