Elements of a base VE infrastructure

Computers in Industry

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-163

  Camarinha Matos, Luis M ^a   Afsarmanesh, Hamideh ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding environment; Infrastructure; Virtual enterprise; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038819155     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(03)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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