Healthcare has became a popular issue as its scope involves different sciences, people, and knowledge including medicine, patients, nursing, doctors, various life controlling systems, and information technologies. Healthcare industry connects different complicated events from inputs to outputs of the healthcare system, these events escalate in different situations, and thus they become problems...

In the electronic business environment, supply chain management must deal with globalization, proliferating product variety, organizational barriers, and quick information sharing. Consequently, appropriate tools are needed to support supply chain management. We believe that software agents are good candidates to overcome these challenges. In this paper, I propose MASƏSCM, which is a Multi-Agen...

This paper presents a research project named "Automated life-cycle management system for curtain walls in high-rise buildings based on supply chain management," which is jointly performed by the consortium of universities and companies involved in curtain wall design, manufacturing, and construction in Korea. The objective of this research is to improve the efficiency of the current process thr...

Innovation is the key to sustainable performance in the current competitive market. Supply chains being network of firms entangled in exchange relationships; innovation in supply chains cannot be fully achieved without effective supply chain relationships. Hence the current study explores empirically the influence of dominant relational attributes viz. trust, commitment, communication, cooperat...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a well-known example of a complex system. Classical computing technologies have shown little success in modeling complex systems. However, a large body of research in multi-agent system (MAS) technology has demonstrated how complex systems can be modeled to generate smart solutions, which could not be done otherwise. We have researched on the design and developm...

Supply chain partnerships within housing refurbishment have not been given much specific attention which may be found surprising because the refurbishment market is becoming of increasing importance compared to new construction and has specific characteristics that require adapted approaches to supply chain integration. In this paper approaches, expected benefits and challenges of supply chain ...

in this paper, a two-echelon supply chain, which includes two products based on the following considerations, has been studied and the bullwhip effect is quantified. providing a measure for bullwhip effect that enables us to analyze and reduce this phenomenon in supply chains with two products is the basic purpose of this paper. demand of products is presented by the first order vector autoregr...

In studies on green supply chain, performance evaluation is an extremely important field. It aims to allow the nodes in supply chain to realize their positions and influence on benefit in overall supply chain in order enhance the supply chain. Thus, implementation of effective performance evaluation is the key to enhance green supply chain development. Distribution service industry is the impor...

Supply chain management has emerged as cross functional, cross company concept to improve coordination of entire value chains through coordinated actions of all companies. It has received a major push from the availability of Internet-based information and communication technologies. The conditions in certain sectors are favorable for a realization of chain wide supply chain management. In othe...