An agent-based planning approach within the framework of distributed hierarchical enterprise management

Journal of Management Control

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-236

  Heyne, Dirk ^a   Mönch, Lars ^b  

^a PricewaterhouseCoopers AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed hierarchical decision making; Enterprise management; Multi Agent System; Software agent based decision support

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455210252     PISSN: 21914761     EISSN: 2191477X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00187-011-0140-9     Document Type: Article

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