Recommender systems for learning: Building user and expert models through long-term observation of application use

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 181-207

  Linton, Frank ^a   Schaefer, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EXPERT MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0034480209     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026521931194     Document Type: Article

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