Awareness and workflow based coordination of networked co-operations in structural design

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volumn 11, Issue , 2006, Pages 489-507

  Alda, Sascha ^a   Bilek, Jochen ^b   Cremers, Armin B ^a   Hartmann, Dietrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness; Multi agent systems; Networked co operations; Peer to peer architectures; Petri nets; Structural design; Workflow

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PERSONNEL; PETRI NETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AWARENESS; NETWORKED CO-OPERATIONS; PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURES; WORKFLOW;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33745902811     PISSN: 14006529     EISSN: 14006529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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