Uncertainty, Action, and Interaction: In Pursuit of Mixed-Initiative Computing

Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington 98052

In: Intelligent Systems, September 1999, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 17-20.

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