Agent-based collaborative working in construction: Understanding and modelling design knowledge, construction management practice and activities for process automation

HKIE Transactions Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 81-87

  Ugwu, Onuegbu O ^a   Kumaraswamy, Mohan ^a   Ng, Thomas ^a   Lee, Peter K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative Working; Design; Dlslributed Artificiallntelligence; Intelligent Agent; Knowledge Modelling; OntOlogy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COLLABORATIVE WORKING; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE MODELING; ONTOLOGY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 1242298683     PISSN: 1023697X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1023697X.2003.10667934     Document Type: Article

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