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The applications in this book employ a number of technologies. These technologies can be grouped under intelligent systems, software engineering, agents, multimedia and the internet/electronic commerce. This chapter introduces the reader to these technologies. The various technologies covered in this chapter are:

  • Expert Systems

  • Case based Reasoning

  • Artificial Neural Networks

  • Fuzzy Systems

  • Genetic Algorithms

  • Intelligent Fusion, Transformation and Combination

  • Object-Oriented Technology

  • Agents and Agent Architectures

  • Multimedia

  • XML — the new internet standard

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Khosla, R., Sethi, I.K., Damiani, E. (2000). Technologies. In: Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 582. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3196-5_2

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