Multi-agent system case studies in command and control, information fusion and data management

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-89

  Sheldon, Frederick ^a   Potok, Thomas ^a   Kavi, Krishna ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative Decision Support; Information Fusion; Intelligent Software Agents; Ontology

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE DECISION SUPPORT; INFORMATION FUSION; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENTS; ONTOLOGY;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE AGENTS; USER INTERFACES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 2442645665     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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