Experience with rule induction and k-nearest neighbor methods for interface agents that learn

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 329-335

  Payne, Terry R ^a   Edwards, Peter ^a   Green, Claire L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent architecture; Information filtering; Instance based learning; Intelligent e mail filter; Intelligent USENet news reader; Interface agent; Machine learning; Rule induction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031099393     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.591456     Document Type: Article

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