Multi-agent planning and coordination for distributed concurrent engineering

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 153-179

  Balasubramanian, Sivaram ^a   Maturana, Francisco P ^a   Norrie, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Coordination; Feature based design; Information processing; Manufacturability; Mediator; Multi agent systems; Process planning; Routing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000629441     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218843096000075     Document Type: Article

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