An intelligent personal assistant for task and time management

AI Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 47-61

  Myers, Karen ^a   Berry, Pauline ^a   Blythe, Jim ^b   Conley, Ken ^a   Gervasio, Melinda ^a   McGuinness, Deborah ^c   Morley, David ^a   Pfeffer, Avi ^d   Pollack, Martha E ^e   Tambe, Milind ^f  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f University of Michigan ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELIEF-DESIRE-INTENTION AGENT SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT PERSONAL ASSISTANT; TASK MANAGEMENT; TIME MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATA THEORY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 34447289202     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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