Guest editorial (Special Issue on Distributed Manufacturing Systems) Mohamed KamelMohammad Jamshidi OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 235
MetaMorph II: an agent-based architecture for distributed intelligent design and manufacturing Weiming ShenFrancisco MaturanaDouglas H. Norrie OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 251
Distributed planning and control systems for the virtual enterprise: organizational requirements and development life-cycle Anto´nio Lucas SoaresAme´rico Lopes AzevedoJorge Pinho de Sousa OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 270
Automated contracting in distributed manufacturing among independent companies Tuomas W. Sandholm OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 283
Inheritance and polymorphism in real-time monitoring and control systems Allen K. C. LeeW. H. IpK. L. Yung OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 294
Assembly line balancing using genetic algorithms I. SabuncuogluE. ErelM. Tanyer OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 310
Intelligent setup planning in manufacturing by neural networks based approach X. G. MingK. L. Mak OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 333