2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Authors : Dr. George Q. Huang, Professor K. L. Mak
Published in: Internet Applications in Product Design and Manufacturing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The Internet technology, with its capability of accommodating multimedia functions, has evolved rapidly during the last decade, and the World Wide Web (WWW or web) is the most popular and visible component among the multifarious devices in Internet technology. The client-server architecture also offers more channels for the sharing of information among project groups that are disparate in time and/or space. Indeed, the web has been widely employed in business, industry, the government, and academia.