Today's supply chains (SC) have become vulnerable to unexpected and ever-intensifying
disruptions from myriad sources. Consequently, the concept of supply chain resilience …

This study critically reviews multiagent systems (MAS) in construction. Given their
autonomous, cooperative, and learning attributes, MAS are a promising approach to …

The uncertainty in the supply chains (SCs) for manufacturing and services firms is going to
be, over the coming decades, more important for the companies that are called to compete …

Cloud services are often distributed across several data centers requiring new scalable
approaches to efficiently perform searching to reduce the energy and price cost of fulfilling …

Increased uncertainty in recent years has led the supply chains to incorporate measures to
be more flexible in order to perform well in the face of the uncertain events. It has been …

Abstract In Web Service research, providing methods and tools to cater for automatic
composition of services on the Web is still the object of ongoing research activity. Despite …

Supply chain collaboration is considered to be the main driving force of supply chain
success. In practice, however, ideal supply chain collaboration is difficult to achieve. In …

Exploitation of distributed resources spread in diverse enterprises is a new and critical issue
in the course of product development cycles. Although the development of IT technology has …

The e-commerce marketplace is intensely and savagely competitive. The e-commerce
market has raised the level of market dynamics such that firms face constant challenges …

In this paper, we describe the design and the implementation of an agent-based system that
supports planning and control activities in semiconductor supply chains. The proposed …