Raising reliability of Web search tool research through replication and chaos theory

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 724-729

  Nicholson, Scott ^a  

^a AskScottcom   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

REPLICATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0033717008     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:8<724::AID-ASI40>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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