What can agents do in industry, and why? An overview of industrially-oriented r and d at CEC

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1435, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-18

  Van Parunak, H Dyke ^a  

^a Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

COMPLEX PRODUCTS; INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS; INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM; PROBLEM AREAS; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SCHEDULING AND CONTROLS; SIMULATION AND MODELING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84957610166     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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