Enhancing workflow management in the manufacturing information system of a small-medium enterprise: An agent-based approach

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-205

  Montaldo, Ernesto ^a   Sacile, Roberto ^a   Boccalatte, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

E commerce systems; Intelligent systems; Manufacturing information systems; Software agents; Workflow management systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037224753     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022605708127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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