MamMoeT: An intelligent agent-based communication support platform for multimodal transport

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 10280-10287

  Dullaert, Wout ^a   Neutens, Tijs ^b   Vanden Berghe, Greet ^c   Vermeulen, Tijs ^c   Vernimmen, Bert ^a   Witlox, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ODISEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agent based approach; Expert communication platform; ICT; Multimodal transport

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; AGENT-BASED COMMUNICATIONS; COST EFFICIENCIES; EXCHANGE PROTOCOLS; EXPERT COMMUNICATION PLATFORM; ICT; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENTS; MAMMOET; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT; REAL-TIME DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SINGLE USERS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 67349254167     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.049     Document Type: Article

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