IGT issues among collaborative enterprises: From rigid to adaptive agent-based technologies

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 5 SPEC., 2001, Pages 452-465

  Wortmann, Hans ^a   Szirbik, Nick ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent paradigm; ERP systems; IT system flexibility; Virtual enterprise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0035412743     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280110042684     Document Type: Article

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