A JADE-based autonomous workflow management system for collaborative IC design

Proceedings of the 2007 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 777-782

  Huang, Ching Jen ^a   Trappey, Charles V ^b   Ku, C C ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent; Collaborative design; JADE; Workflow

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; GROUPWARE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECIFICATIONS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

AGENT; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; IC DESIGNS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; JADE; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM KERNEL; TEAM INTERACTION; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; WORKFLOW REFERENCE MODELS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 47649096653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSCWD.2007.4281535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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