Coalitions of manufacturing components for shop floor agility - the CoBASA architecture

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-77

  Barata, José ^a   Camarinha Matos, Luis M ^a  

^a UNINOVA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Contracts; Multiagent systems; Virtual organisation

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MANUFACTURING AGENTS; MANUFACTURING COMPONENTS; MANUFACTURING RESOURCES; SHOP FLOOR AGILITY; SHOP FLOOR REENGINEERING; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0141704143     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2003.003518     Document Type: Article

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