Activeprocess: A process driven and agent-based approach to supporting collaborative engineering

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 127-137

  Jin, Yan ^a   Zhao, Li ^a   Raghunath, Arun ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Dependency; Engineering collaboration; Intelligent agent; Process execution; Process model; Super concurrency

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK; COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING PRODUCTS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; PROCESS EXECUTION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870667632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/CIE-9099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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