Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 30-40

  Maes, Pattie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

BUILDING INTERFACE AGENTS; ELECTRONIC NEWS FILTERING; EMAIL HANDLING; INFORMATION OVERLOAD AGENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028476392     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/176789.176792     Document Type: Article

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