Flexibility and complexity: Is it a trade-off?

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 51, Issue 23-24, 2013, Pages 6788-6802

  Chryssolouris, George ^a   Efthymiou, Konstantinos ^a   Papakostas, Nikolaos ^a   Mourtzis, Dimitris ^a   Pagoropoulos, Aris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complexity; Flexibility; Measures; Trade off

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY; FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBILITY MEASUREMENT; MEASURES; NETWORK COMPLEXITY; TRADE-OFF;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84890551435     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2012.761362     Document Type: Article

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