WebBlow: A Web/agent-based multidisciplinary design optimization environment

Computers in Industry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Wang, Ying Daisy ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a   Ghenniwa, Hamada ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agents; Collaborative design; Multidisciplinary design optimization; Web; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS; XML;

PROCESS SIMULATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 0042529135     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(03)00066-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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