Intelligent adaptive information agents

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-260

  Decker, Keith S ^a   Sycara, Katia ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Architectures; Distributed AI; Information Gathering; Intelligent Agents; Multi Agent Systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTELLIGENT ADAPTIVE INFORMATION AGENTS; INTERFACE AGENTS; INTERNET; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; REUSABLE TASK STRUCTURE BASED INTELLIGENT NETWORK AGENTS (RETSINA);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031274144     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008654019654     Document Type: Article

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