Modeling and simulation of ant colony's labor division with constraints for task allocation of resilient supply chains

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xiao, Renbin ^a   Yu, Tongyang ^b   Gong, Xiaoguang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony's labor division; constraint; resilient supply chain; self adaptation; task allocation

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONIES; CONSTRAINT; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; MODELING AND SIMULATION; SELF ADAPTATION; SELF-ORGANIZATION FEATURES; SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION; TASK ALLOCATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 84863109052     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213012400143     Document Type: Article

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