Challenges, approaches and architecture for distributed process integration in heterogeneous environments

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-44

  O'Brien, William J ^a   Hammer, Joachim ^b   Siddiqui, Mohsin ^a   Topsakal, Oguzhan ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Distributed schedule coordination; Information discovery; Legacy integration; Process integration; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULE COORDINATION; INFORMATION DISCOVERY; LEGACY INTEGRATION; PROCESS INTEGRATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 39449106118     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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