Using mobile agents to schedule a manufacturing chain on the Internet

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 311-323

  Zhou, Guanghui ^a   Jiang, Pingyu ^a   Fukuda, Shuichi ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Manufacturing chains; Mobile agent; Networked manufacturing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; SCHEDULING;

MANUFACTURING CHAIN;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036923707     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106329302129140205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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