An integrative process model for cooperation support in civil engineering

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volumn 11, Issue , 2006, Pages 509-528

  Rueppel, Uwe ^a   Lange, Michael ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Distributed planning processes; Petri Nets; Process modelling; Software agents

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; PERSONNEL; PETRI NETS; PROCESS CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COOPERATION; DISTRIBUTED PLANNING PROCESSES; PETRI-NETS; PROCESS MODELLING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745876553     PISSN: 14006529     EISSN: 14006529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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