A multi-resolution collaborative architecture for web-centric global manufacturing

Information Sciences

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-21

  Ulieru, Mihaela ^a   Norrie, Douglas ^a   Kremer, Rob ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global resource allocation; Mediator centric organization; Multi agent systems; Recursive multi resolution collaborative architecture; Task decomposition; Virtual clustering; Web centric inter enterprise cooperation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002826872     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(00)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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