The design of a proactive personal agent for task management

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yorke Smith, Neil ^a,b   Saadati, Shahin ^b   Myers, Karen L ^b   Morley, David N ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive agents; proactivity; task management

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL MODELS; ASSISTIVE AGENTS; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; METAREASONING; PERSONAL AGENT; PERSONAL ASSISTANT AGENTS; PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR; PROACTIVITY; TASK MANAGEMENT; USER INVOLVEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84858384935     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213012500042     Document Type: Article

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