Determining confidence when integrating contributions from multiple agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 461-468

  Becker, Raphen ^a,b   Corkill, Daniel D ^a  

^a The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis models; Confidence; Contribution integration

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS MODELS; CONFIDENCE; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CONTRIBUTION INTEGRATION; INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE AGENTS; PROBLEM-SOLVING; TRUST AND REPUTATIONS;

AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INTEGRATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 60349106670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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