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The NetMan project aims at developing concepts and e-business software support systems for manufacturing networks. The e-business-oriented NetMan Operation System carries out collaboratively the distributed planning and scheduling processes, as well as the manufacturing and logistic operations monitoring in networks organizations. It is based on an extensive use of the new information technologies. This paper presents the agent-based software infrastructure developed in the NetMan project.
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Cloutier, L., Frayret, JM., D’Amours, S., Montreuil, B. (2001). The Netman Agent-Based Architecture for E-Business in Network Organizations. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Rabelo, R.J. (eds) E-Business and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35399-9_15
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