Collaborative e-work and e-manufacturing: Challenges for production and logistics managers

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 689-701

  Nof, Shimon Y ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active middleware; Active protocols; Autonomous agents; Collaborative robotics; Conflict resolution; Cooperation requirements planning; Design principles; Distributed operations; Integration; Parallelism

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

ACTIVE PROTOCOLS; COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; COOPERATION REQUIREMENTS PLANNING; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 33751547296     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-006-0038-9     Document Type: Article

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