Coordination mechanisms for cooperative design

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 453-461

  Wilson, John L ^a   Shi, Chenggang ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Contract nets; Cooperation; Coordination; Design; Hierarchical planning; Partial global planning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CIVIL ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED DESIGN TEAM; CONTRACT NETS; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; HIERARCHICAL PLANNING; PARTIAL GLOBAL PLANNING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0030218259     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0952-1976(96)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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