Utility theory-based user models for intelligent interface agents

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

Volumn 1418, Issue , 1998, Pages 378-392

  Brown, Scott M ^a   Santos, Eugene ^b   Banks, Sheila B ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive modeling; Knowledge representation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY PROCESSING; SPACECRAFT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE MODEL; DATABASE QUERIES; EXPERT SYSTEM SHELLS; INTELLIGENT INTERFACE AGENTS; INTERFACE AGENT; NATURAL LANGUAGES; UNCERTAINTY; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84958657018     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64575-6_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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