Nowadays the ability to provide outpatient services with exceptional quality is paramount to long-term survival of hospitals, as the revenues from outpatient services are predicted to equal or exceed inpatient revenues in the near future. Identifying the relative weight of different dimensions...

The research proposes an agent based approach, properly linked to production planning activities, able to support negotiation in catalogue based e-marketplace. In this context, production planning tools allow the creation of a link between commercialization and manufacturing activities,...