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To respond to the challenge of global economic competition, manufacturers are searching for ways to bring high-quality products, system, and structures into being in response to established needs. Simultaneously, as cost is a key factor among many physical and social factors to determine the success of a product, they attempt to reduce costs during every phase of the product’s life cycle. The major obstacle for LCC models is data gathering from a highly distributed heterogeneous environment with a huge number of information sources. This paper presents a system analysis approach to design agents for information gathering for CASA model that is one of popular LCC models.
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Zhang, T.I., Jiang, H.C., Kendall, E.A. (2001). Agent Design for LCC Information Gathering. In: Mo, J.P.T., Nemes, L. (eds) Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Enterprise Networks. DIISM 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 63. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35412-5_37
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