Intelligent computer-aided engineering
AI Magazine
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Computers in Industry - Special double issue: WET ICE '95
Madefast: collaborative engineering over the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Integrating communicative action, conversations and decision theory to coordinate agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
An experimental environment for exchanging engineering design knowledge by cognitive agents
Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.2 international conference on Knowledge intensive CAD volume 2
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems; Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems; Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Federated Information Management Requirements for Virtual Enterprises
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
Tendencies and General Requirements for Virtual Enterprises
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
Modelling project coordination in a multi-agent framework
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Dynamic manufacturing scheduling using both functional and resource related agents
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Intelligent machine agent architecture for adaptive control optimization of manufacturing processes
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Market globalisation and frequently changing customer requirements are forcing manufacturing enterprises to reconsider how they are organised. On the other hand, companies feel the need to focus their core competencies and are downloading product development tasks to their suppliers. As a result, related manufacturing enterprises are closely joined together through, e.g., virtual enterprises, using advanced information and communication technologies. Sharing and exchange of information and knowledge among related enterprises becomes more and more important. This paper presents our agent-based approach to organise enterprise's activities and those of its customers, suppliers and partners into an open dynamic environment via networks to facilitate the sharing and exchange of information and knowledge related to customer requirements, products, production, and services, etc. A hybrid agent-based architecture is proposed, main features of this architecture are described and a prototype implementation is presented.