Cooperating agents for 3-D scientific data interpretation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-126

  Gallimore, Randall J ^a   Jennings, Nick R ^b   Lamba, Harmeet S ^a,b   Mason, Cindy L ^a   Orenstein, Bernard J ^a,b  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative problem solving; Intelligent agents; Multiagent systems; Scientific data interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343352243     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.740674     Document Type: Article

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