Adaptive exception monitoring agents for management by exceptions

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 397-418

  Liu, Rey Long ^a   Shih, Meng Jung ^a   Kao, Yu Fen ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INTRANETS; JOB ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; PLANNING; SERVERS;

ADAPTIVE AGENTS; EXCEPTION MONITORING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MERCHANDISING TRADES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242323405     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510151087338     Document Type: Article

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