An intelligent personal spider (agent) for dynamic Internet/Intranet searching

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-58

  Hsinchun, Chen ^a   Yi Ming, Chung ^a,c   Ramsey, Marshall ^a   Yang, Christopher C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Evolutionary programming; Information retrieval; Internet; Intranet; Java; Machine learning; Semantic retrieval; Spider; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; HTML; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTRANETS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DYNAMIC INTERNET/INTRANET SEARCHING; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT PERSONAL SPIDERS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032068674     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(98)00035-9     Document Type: Article

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