A multiagent approach for diagnostic expert systems via the internet

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Shaalan, Khaled ^a   El Badry, Mona ^b   Rafea, Ahmed ^c  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b Ctrl Lab for Agric Expert Systems   (Egypt)

^c The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agents; Expert systems; WWW

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMMUNICATION MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL AGENTS; DATA COLLECTOR; EXPERT SYSTEM AGENTS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342521348     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2003.12.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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