An autonomous agent development environment for engineering applications

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-134

  Hao, Qi ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a   Zhang, Zhan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agents; Collaborative environments; Multi agent systems; Product design

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT; COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 23944496043     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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