Cooperative information-gathering: A distributed problem-solving approach

IEE Proceedings: Software

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-88

  Oates, T ^a   Nagendra Prasad, M V ^a   Lesser, V R ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed processing; Information gathering; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

COOPERATIVE INFORMATION GATHERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031072515     PISSN: 14625970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-sen:19971025     Document Type: Article

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