Agent-based model for managing composite product information

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-81

  Främling, Kary ^a   Ala Risku, Timo ^a   Kärkkäinen, Mikko ^a   Holmström, Jan ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Middleware; Product agent; Product assembly; Product information management; Product lifecycle management

Indexed keywords

PRODUCT AGENT; PRODUCT ASSEMBLY; PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIDDLEWARE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 27944444610     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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