Agents for process coherence in virtual enterprises

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 62-69

  Jain, Anuj K ^a   Aparicio IV, Manuel ^b   Singh, Munindar P ^c  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

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EID: 0002572761     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/295685.295702     Document Type: Article

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