An application view of COORDINATORS coordination managers for first responders

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 908-915

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Phelps, John ^a   Guralnik, Valerie ^a   Vanriper, Ryan ^a  

^a HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Software Agents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING DEVICE; PROBLEM SPACE; RESPONDERS; TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TRACKING (POSITION); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MANAGERS;

EID: 9444292368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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