Autonomous Agents as Synthetic Characters

AI Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 13-30

  Elliott, Clark ^a   Brzezinski, Jacek ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032096920     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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