A decision support system for cooperative transportation planning: Design, implementation, and performance assessment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5125-5138

  Sprenger, Ralf ^a   Mönch, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperative transportation planning; Integration; Multi agent systems; Simulation based performance assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTEGRATION; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEB SERVICES;

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COOPERATIVE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; HIERARCHICAL ALGORITHM; LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDER; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION-BASED PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897980246     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.032     Document Type: Article

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