Supporting collaborative product design in an agent based environment

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2718, Issue , 2003, Pages 447-460

  Fang, Weidong ^a   Tang, Ming Xi ^a   Frazer, John Hamilton ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

AI; Autonomous agents; Collaborative design; DCOM; MAS

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION PROCESSES; COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL; INTELLIGENT DESIGN SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS; DCOM; MAS; SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DESIGN; EXPERT SYSTEMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MIDDLEWARE;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 7044245525     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45034-3_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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