Intelligent agents for the management of complexity in multimodal biometrics

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 293-304

  Deravi, F ^a   Fairhurst, M C ^a   Guest, R M ^a   Mavity, N J ^a   Canuto, A M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligent software agents; Multimodal biometrics; Universal access

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENT; MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRICS; MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATIONS; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; UNIVERSAL APPLICATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 1142296186     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-002-0039-1     Document Type: Article

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