Intelligence analysis as agent-assisted discovery of evidence, hypotheses and arguments

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-10

  Tecuci, Gheorghe ^a   Schum, David ^a   Boicu, Mihai ^a   Marcu, Dorin ^a   Hamilton, Benjamin ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Defense ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive assistants; Discovery; Evidence based reasoning; Intelligence analysis; Learning; Mixed initiative reasoning; Science of evidence; Wide area motion imagery

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ASSISTANTS; DISCOVERY; EVIDENCE-BASED; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MIXED-INITIATIVE; SCIENCE OF EVIDENCE; WIDE-AREA MOTION IMAGERIES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 78149385244     PISSN: 21903018     EISSN: 21903026     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14616-9_1     Document Type: Article

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