An intelligent agent for brokering Problem-Solving knowledge

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

Volumn 1607, Issue , 1999, Pages 693-705

  Richard Benjamins, V ^a   Wielinga, Bob ^a   Wielemaker, Jan ^a   Fensel, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENT; KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING METHODS; SUB-PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84958058210     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0100537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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