The potential of XML technology as an answer to the data interchange problems of the construction industry

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 737-746

  Agdas, Duzgun ^a   Ellis, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic data interchange; Extensible markup language; Information technology

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; AUTOMATED DATA; BUSINESS PROCESS; COMPLEX SUPPLY CHAIN; DATA INTERCHANGE; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ERROR PRONES; EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (IT); LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES; XML TECHNOLOGY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERCHANGES; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SUPPLY CHAINS; XML;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; BUSINESS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA TRANSMISSION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77956510708     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446191003767503     Document Type: Article

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