Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere

Computers in Industry

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-228

  Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Germain, Bart Saint ^a   Verstraete, Paul ^a   Van Belle, Jan ^a   Hadeli, ^a   Van Brussel, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Integration; Intelligent products; Internet; Real world entity; Technological development

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; NAVIGATION CHARTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CORE BUSINESS; INTELLIGENT PRODUCTS; INTELLIGENT RESOURCES; NOVEL CONCEPTS; PRODUCT TYPES; REAL-WORLD ENTITY; RESEARCH AGENDAS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 60249090597     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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