Enterprise collaboration: On-demand information exchange using enterprise databases, wireless sensor networks, and RFID systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 519-532

  Hsu, Cheng ^a   Levermore, David M ^a   Carothers, Christopher ^b   Babin, Gilbert ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common schema; Global query; Information integration; Internet collaboration; Market style resource allocation; Metadatabase

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERNET; METADATA; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

GLOBAL QUERY; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; INTERNET COLLABORATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 34347385826     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.897587     Document Type: Article

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