Hierarchical concurrent engineering in a multiagent framework

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-57

  D'Ambrosio, Joseph ^{a,b,i,j,k,l,m}   Darr, Timothy ^a,b,i   Birmingham, William ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Univ Michigan's Digit Lib Proj ^*

^d Univ Michigan's Digit Lib Proj

^e U Technol Microelectronics Center   (United States)

^f MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Carnegie Group   (United States)

^h Trimeter Technologies Corp   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^k MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m IEEE

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Author keywords

Agents; Concurrent engineering; Distributed constraint satisfaction; Hierarchical decomposition; Multilevel optimization; Value function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002754348     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9600400105     Document Type: Article

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