A framework for virtual enterprise operation management

Computers in Industry

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-352

  Gou, Hongmei ^a   Huang, Biqing ^a   Liu, Wehhuang ^a   Li, Xiu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agents; Business processes; Petri nets; UML; Virtual enterprises; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PETRI NETS;

OPERATION MANAGEMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0038671814     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(03)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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