Towards a generic distributed and collaborative digital manufacturing

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 267-275

  Mahesh, M ^a   Ong, S K ^a   Nee, A Y C ^a   Fuh, J Y H ^a   Zhang, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptable framework; Distributed manufacturing; Functional agents; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

ADAPTABLE FRAMEWORK; DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING; FUNCTIONAL AGENTS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33846817103     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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