Sharing metainformation to guide cooperative search among heterogeneous reusable agents

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-208

  Lander, Susan E ^a,b   Lesser, Victor R ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Blackboard Technology   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Distributed artificial intelligence; Distributed search; Information (knowledge) sharing; Mechanical design; Multiagent systems; Reusable agents; System performance

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DESIGN; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SHARING;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031098273     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.591446     Document Type: Article

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