A subset of the dependent or integral selection method where the parameters that reflect the distributiveness of the resources, as the transport time and cost, are supplied by the transport resources preselected.
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Broker's Direct Cost and Time Variables and Expressions
Paulo Ávila (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal), Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal), Maria Manuela Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal), and Ana Madureira (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch011
Abstract
In this work, we will present the direct costs and times of the broker for the resources selection process in our agile/virtual enterprise (A/VE) project designated by BM_Virtual Enterprise project (more details can be seen in Putnik, 2000). Related with this work and after revised literature about the selection process for A/VE, we have verified there are some works about selection models and about selection algorithms (Dhaenens- Filipo, 2000; Gupta & Nagi, 1995; Huang & Mak, 2000; Ko, Kim, & Hwang, 2001; Minis, Herrmann, & Lam, 1996; Sluga & Butala, 2001; Subbub, Sanderson, Hocaoglu, & Graves, 1999; Wu, Mao, & Quian, 1999), but on the one hand without evaluating the times and the costs associated to the selection process, much less considering the broker.