Cloning for intelligent adaptive information agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1286, Issue , 1997, Pages 63-75

  Decker, Keith ^a   Sycara, Katia ^b   Williamson, Mike ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLONING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INVESTMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION AGENTS; BACKING-UP; EXECUTION LEVEL; FINANCIAL PORTFOLIO; INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM; INFORMATION REQUEST; MULTI AGENT; TASK ENVIRONMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84873596294     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0030082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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