Agents, availability awareness, and decision making

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 53-70

  Russell, Stephen ^a,b   Yoon, Victoria Y ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Information Systems and Technology Management ^*  (United States)

^c Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability awareness; Decision support; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DECISION OUTCOME; DECISION SUPPORT; DECISION SUPPORTS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SILICATE MINERALS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 70350043604     PISSN: 15483657     EISSN: 15483665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jiit.2009080704     Document Type: Article

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