The design of a JADE-based autonomous workflow management system for collaborative SoC design

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2659-2669

  Trappey, Charles V ^a   Trappey, Amy J C ^b,e   Huang, Ching Jen ^c   Ku, C C ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collaborative design; Intelligent agent technology; JADE; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LIFE CYCLE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY; JADE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT COALITIONS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW REFERENCE MODELS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 56349131205     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.064     Document Type: Article

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