Automatic learning of user profiles - Towards the personalisation of agent services

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 110-117

  Soltysiak, S J ^a,b,c   Crabtree, I B ^d,e,f  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BT Group   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^e BT's Syst Automat Diagn W ^*

^f Applied Research and Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS;

USER PROFILING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032115405     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009690117684     Document Type: Article

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