Like an intuitive and courteous butler: A proactive personal agent for task management

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 483-490

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

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive agents; CALO; Proactivity; Task management

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ASSISTIVE AGENTS; CALO; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; META COGNITIONS; PERSONAL ASSISTANT AGENTS; PRO ACTIVITIES; PROACTIVE BEHAVIOURS; TASK MANAGEMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84899822214     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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