Title : 
The MAKE-IT project: Manufacturing Agents in a Knowledge-based Environment driven by Internet Technologies
         
        
            Author : 
Sacile, Roberto ; Paolucci, Massimo ; Boccalatte, Antonio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Telematics, Genova Univ., Italy
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
MAKE-IT (Manufacturing Agents in a Knowledge-based Environment driven by Internet Technologies) is a research project whose objective is the definition and the implementation of “small” software architectures that can be taken into account as agents - which can perform simple rule-based actions while performing a quite heavy and complex coordination. The main field of application of the MAKE-IT agents is the workflow management of information in small or medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, specifically when their information system is based on the Microsoft Windows architecture
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; management information systems; manufacturing data processing; research initiatives; software agents; software architecture; workflow management software; Internet technologies; MAKE-IT project; Microsoft Windows; SME; agent coordination; information system; knowledge-based environment; manufacturing agents; medium-sized manufacturing enterprises; rule-based actions; small manufacturing enterprises; small software architectures; workflow management; Computer architecture; Decision support systems; Electrical capacitance tomography; Informatics; Information technology; Internet; Management information systems; Management training; Manufacturing; Relational databases;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Research Challenges, 2000. Proceedings. Academia/Industry Working Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Buffalo, NY
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-0628-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/AIWORC.2000.843306