A dynamic inference model for intelligent agents

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 509-528

  Miao, Chunyan ^a   Goh, Angela ^a,b   Miao, Yuan ^b   Yang, Zhonghua ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Fuzzy cognitive map; Intelligent agent

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERFACE MODEL (AIM); CRITICAL SYSTEMS; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP; INFERENCE AGENTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0442319843     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000669     Document Type: Article

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