Conflict identification and reconciliation in a collaborative manufacturing scheduling task

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-174

  Abreu, Claudio F ^a   May, Jerrold H ^b   Spangler, William E ^c   Vargas, Luis G ^b  

^a BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Artificial intelligence; Decision support systems; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949113695     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622008002855     Document Type: Article

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