Flying Together: Modelling Air Mission Teams

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 195-218

  Tidhar, Gil ^a,c,d   Heinze, Clinton ^b,e,f   Selvestrel, Mario ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c Australian Artif Intell Institute   (Australia)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e AERO AND MAR RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Australia)

^f RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coordination; Modelling; Organizations; Simulation; Teams

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AIR MISSION TEAMS; SMART WHOLE AIR MISSION MODEL;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032072480     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008271016283     Document Type: Article

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