Forecasting the productivity of a virtual enterprise by agent-based fuzzy collaborative intelligence - With Facebook as an example

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages 511-521

  Chen, Toly ^a   Romanowski, Richard ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collaborative; Facebook; Fuzzy; Learning model; Productivity; Virtual enterprise

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

COLLABORATIVE; FACEBOOK; FUZZY; LEARNING MODELS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84907330536     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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