An ontological intelligent agent platform to establish an ecological virtual enterprise

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7050-7061

  Wang, Xiaohuan ^a,b   Wong, T N ^a   Wang, Gong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Ecological virtual enterprise; Intelligent agent; Ontology reasoning; Supplier selection

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; DYNAMIC ALLIANCE; ECODESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; GREEN PRODUCTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGERS; LEADTIME; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGY INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY MATCHING; ONTOLOGY THEORY; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA; SELECTION CRITERIA; SHARED ONTOLOGIES; SUBTASKS; SUPPLIER AGENTS; SUPPLIER SELECTION; TWO STAGE; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

CASE BASED REASONING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84862776661     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.042     Document Type: Article

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