Related WWW Sites on Objects, Agents and Manufacturing

The following are interesting and related projects in distributed object technologies, software agent architectures, and agile manufacturing.

Research Groups and Projects in Agent-Based Systems

Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory Home Page

KSL is an artificial intelligence laboratory with research efforts in sharing engineering knowledge bases and systems.

Stanford Logic Group Home Page

The Logic Group at Stanford is doing research on automating the interoperation of programs with agents.

Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center Home Page

Lockheed AIC has several projects in agent-based collaborative engineering.

Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) Home Page

EIT has current projects in agent-based technologies, electronic commerce, and WWW services.

Intelligent Software Agents Home Page

This page lists other intelligent software agent projects and home pages.

SHADE Project

The SHAred Dependency Engineering project is an ARPA-sponsored project conducted by researchers at Lockheed AIC, Stanford KSL, and EIT. The focus of SHADE is information sharing in concurrent engineering.

Concur Project

Concur is a Web server presentation of Greg Olsen's PhD dissertation research in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. The research suggests the use of agent architectures to facilitate inter-enterprise engineering collaboration over the Internet.

Agile Cable Production Service

ACaPS is on-line agile cable manufacturing service at Lockheed.

Next-Link Project

The Next-Link project is developing a set of message protocols and generic services for the coordination of distributed engineering agents.

Research Groups and Projects in Manufacturing

Laboratory for Manufacturing Automation at UC Berkeley

Professor David Dornfeld's Mechanical Engineering laboratory conducts research in precision manufacturing, burr prediction, and intelligent machine control.

Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory at UC Berkeley

Professor Paul Wright's Mechanical Engineering laboratory conducts research in intelligent manufacturing systems and materials processing.

Engineering Design Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University

The mission of the EDRC at CMU is to create, demonstrate, and disseminate cross-disciplinary design methodologies as a significant contribution to the development of design science.

n-dim Project at CMU

n-dim has been conceived primarily as a system to support humans in the process of design.

ARPA-sponsored MADE Project

The goal of the Manufacturing Automation and Design Engineering project is to develop formal design representations in order to improve the entire design-to-manufacturing process.

ACORN Project

Advanced Collaborative Open Resource Network (ACORN) is a collaboration of EIT, CMU, Stanford, and others to deploy engineering and manufacturing services on the Internet. ACORN builds on work completed under MADE and existing Internet technology.

Computer Integrated Manufacturing at the University of Maryland

This research department at Maryland is concentrating on the development and application of advanced modeling tools for complex manufacturing systems.

Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at NIST

NIST manufacturing laboratories conduct research in all facets of manufacturing and works with industries to improve the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing.

Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at NIST

This division at NIST develops standards and technologies leading to the implementation of virtual manufacturing enterprises.

GE Research Concurrent Engineering Toolkit

The CE-toolkit provides services in concurrent engineering, agile manufacturing, and rapid prototyping over the Internet.

Agile Manufacturing Web Pages

This Sandia page lists other manufacturing projects and home pages.

Intelligent Agent and Distributed Object Technologies

KQML

The Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language is a language for agent communication. The KQML home page includes documentation, mailing list archives, and status information.

KIF

The Knowledge Interchange Format is a content language that is commonly used with KQML.

KAPI FTP Site (Lockheed)

KAPI is a public domain API that allows agents to send KQML messages via three transport mechanisms: electronic mail, TCP, or HTTP.

CORBA

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture is a standard object architecture which supports distributed objects. CORBA is developed by the Object Management Group (OMG) and supported by many vendors.

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