Development of an intelligent task management system in a manufacturing information network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-179

  Lau, H C W ^a   Tso, S K ^a   Ho, J K L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Expert system; Manufacturing information network; Object oriented technology; Rule based inference mechanism; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000400380     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(98)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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