Agent-based knowledge logistics for coalition operations: Main technologies and a case study

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 609-616

  Smirnov, Alexander ^a   Pashkin, Mikhail ^a   Chilov, Nikolai ^a   Levashova, Tatiana ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; LOGISTICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COALITION OPERATIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; KNOWLEDGE LOGISTICS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTI-AGENT COMMUNITY; OPERATIONS SUPPORT; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84883102201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2003.1251473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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