Rapid development of large knowledge bases

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2169-2174

  Barbulescu, Marcel ^a   Balan, Gabriel ^a   Boicu, Mihai ^a   Tecuci, Gheorghe ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY WAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental evaluation; Intelligent agents; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge bases integration; Military center of gravity; Ontology import

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE BASES INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY IMPORT;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242637672     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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