A collaborative agent-based infrastructure for internet-enabled collaborative enterprises

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1621-1638

  Shen, Weiming ^a,b   Kremer, Rob ^a   Ulieru, Mihaela ^a   Norrie, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MARKETING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES;

INTERNET;

EID: 0242364639     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540210163946     Document Type: Article

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