KRAFT: An agent architecture for knowledge fusion

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 171-195

  Preece, Alun ^a   Hui, Kit ^a   Gray, Alex ^b   Marti, Philippe ^b   Bench Capon, Trevor ^c   Cui, Zhan ^d   Jones, Dean ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent architectures; Constraints; Information agents; Knowledge fusion; Multi agent systems; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035584475     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218843001000308     Document Type: Article

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