On combining the knowledge of heterogeneous information repositories

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 515-532

  Borghoff, Uwe M ^a   Schlichter, Johann H ^b  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data retrieval; Distributed agent system; Information gathering; Internet; Knowledge brokers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011507061     PISSN: 0948695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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