BIG: an agent for resource-bounded information gathering and decision making

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 197-244

  Lesser, Victor ^a   Horling, Bryan ^a   Klassner, Frank ^b   Raja, Anita ^a   Wagner, Thomas ^c   Zhang, Shelley X Q ^a  

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

^b Department of Computing Sciences and Center of Excellence in Enterprise Technology   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLANNING; SCHEDULING; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION AGENTS; INFORMATION GATHERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0034172642     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(00)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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