Information needs in agent teamwork

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 231-247

  Yen, John ^a   Fan, Xiaocong ^a   Volz, Richard A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION THEORY;

INFORMATION EXCHANGE; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION GATHERING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 10844288561     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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