Strategies for querying information agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1435, Issue , 1998, Pages 94-107

  Chalasani, Prasad ^a   Jha, Somesh ^a   Shehory, Onn ^a   Sycara, Katia ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMPLETION TIME; INFORMATION AGENTS; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 22044435495     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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