Agent-oriented collaborative design of industrial buildings

Computing in Civil and Building Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 333-340

  Ugwu, O O ^a   Anumba, C J ^a   Newnham, L ^a   Thorpe, A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PORTALS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AGENT ORIENTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0034588486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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