Agent-based collaborative project management system for distributed manufacturing

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1223-1228

  Wu, Shaohong ^a   Kotak, Dilip ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent; Distributed manufacturing; Project management; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; METAL FORMING MACHINES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SCHEDULING; SHEET METAL;

AGENT-BASED COLLABORATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0242576357     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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