A Distributed Location System for the Active Office: Distributed systems for locating people and equipment will be at the heart of tomorrow’s active offices

IEEE Network

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 62-70

  Hopper, Andy ^b  

^a Olivetti Research ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

ACTIVE OFFICES; DISTRIBUTED LOCATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028322851     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/65.260080     Document Type: Article

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