Collaborative Multiagent Adaptation for Business Environmental Scanning Through the Internet

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-133

  Liu, Rey Long ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive agent; Business environmental scanning; Continuous scanning; Information preference; Resource bounded scanning

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCANNING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADAPTIVE AGENTS; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING; CONTINUOUS SCANNING; INFORMATION PREFERENCE; RESOURCE-BOUNDED SCANNING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842423736     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APIN.0000013335.15447.b4     Document Type: Article

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