A prominent trend in the software industry in the late 1990s was the development of the application service providing business model. Application service providers (ASP)1 offer th...
In this work, decisions that have a long lasting effect on the SC such as the design and retrofit of a production/distribution network are considered. The retrofitting tasks are a...
The operation of global manufacturing network is challenging due to the complexity in product and information flow, diversity in sites, localization and processes and the informati...
Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves a number of interrelated activities from negotiating with suppliers to competing for customer orders and scheduling the manufacturing proces...
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...