Agent-based collaborative product design engineering: An industrial case study

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-38

  Hao, Qi ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a   Zhang, Zhan ^a   Park, Seong Whan ^b   Lee, Jai Kyung ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Internet aided design; Product design engineering; Software agents; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COLLABORATION; INTERNET-AIDED DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEERING; WORKFLOW;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 27944490887     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.04.008     Document Type: Article

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