Building life-like 'conscious' software agents

AI Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 183-193

  Franklin, Stan ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARE AGENT; SPARSE DISTRIBUTED MEMORY;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034498983     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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