The future IT systems for virtual enterprises: Product-oriented agent providers?

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 261-270

  Szirbik, Nick B ^a   Jagdev, Harinder S ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS RELATED DECISIONS; PRODUCT-ORIENTED AGENT PROVIDERS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE RELATED DECISIONS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES; VIRTUAL PRODUCT;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PORTALS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 0035556603     PISSN: 19460740     EISSN: 19460759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2001.997694     Document Type: Article

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