Agent-based modeling of supply chains for distributed scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 847-861

  Jason, S K Lau ^a   Liang, L ^b   Mak, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; distributed scheduling; information sharing; project scheduling; supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008039555     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: 15582426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.854231     Document Type: Article

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