Agents with shared mental models for enhancing team decision makings

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 634-653

  Yen, John ^a,c,d   Fan, Xiaocong ^a   Sun, Shuang ^a,e   Hanratty, Timothy ^b   Dumer, John ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Information Sciences and Technology ^*  (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST)

Author keywords

Agent teamwork; Homeland security; Information overload; Team decision making

Indexed keywords

AGENT TEAMWORK; HOMELAND SECURITY; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; TEAM DECISION MAKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SECURITY OF DATA;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 32544452877     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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