The Bullwhip Effect: Concretization of Entropic Information Dissipation in Supply Chain Systems

Supply chains represent complex and dynamic systems that incorporate autonomous firms interacting with one another to fulfill a common goal, while insuring their own ones. These firms’ behaviors are considered to be non-linear and sometimes unpredictable. This makes information transfer in the suppl...

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Main Authors: Tarik Saikouk, Iskander Zouaghi, Alain Spalanzani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2012-08-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/HMA623SZ.pdf