Personal assistant agents for collaborative design environments

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 732-739

  Wu, Shumin ^a   Ghenniwa, Hamada ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative design environments; Intelligent user assistance; Personal assistant agents; User modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS (CDE); INTELLIGENT USER ASSISTANCE; PERSONAL ASSISTANT AGENTS; USER MODELING;

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

EID: 33750525484     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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