Resource-bounded searches in an information marketplace

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 49-57

  Lesser, Victor ^a   Horling, Bryan ^a   Raja, Anita ^a   Zhang, Xiaoqin ^a   Wagner, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); USER INTERFACES;

BOUNDED INFORMATION GATHERING; EXECUTION TIME; SCHEDULING TIME; WEB SITE;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 0033885612     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4236.832946     Document Type: Article

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