Accurate inventory is a key to effective supply chain management and store execution, affecting forecasting, ordering, and replenishment. Prior empirical research, however, shows that retailer perpetual inventory (PI) is inherently inaccurate. Radio frequency identification (RFID)-technology enables visibility into the movement of inventories within the supply chain. This research investigates ...

This paper presents a hybrid agents based architecture that uses casebased reasoning and case-based planning systems as reasoning mechanism in deliberative BDI agents to manage daily tasks and hardware devices on dynamic environments. This architecture is also founded on Ambient Intelligence, joining a set of technologies, such as radio frequency identification, wireless networks and wireless c...

This paper presents an Ambient Intelligence based architecture model that uses intelligent hybrid agents with the ability to obtain automatic and real time information about the context using a set of technologies, such as radio frequency identification, wireless networks and wireless control devices, which can be implemented on a wide diversity of dynamic environments.

Recognizing radio frequency identification (RFID) as a disruptive technology unearths interesting facts that could help managers decide how to approach their RFID projects. RFID for the supply chain (RFID/SC) has attracted global attention and the adoption pace is quickening. It has characteristics resembling that of a disruptive technology. To better understand RFID/SC, we use Christensen’s pr...