Redesigning Case Retrieval to Reduce Information Acquisition Costs

Information Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-68

  Mookerjee, Vijay S ^a   Mannino, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case Based Systems; Case Retrieval Algorithms; Cost Reduction; Information Costs; Joint Versus Separate Optimization

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATION;

CASE BASED SYSTEMS; CASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; CONCEPTUAL CLUSTERING; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; INFORMATION COSTS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM; RETRIEVAL STRATEGIES;

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EID: 0031507635     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.8.1.51     Document Type: Article

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