A Learning Agent that Assists the Browsing of Software Libraries

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1179-1196

  Drummond, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BROWSING; LEARNING AGENT; SIMULATED HUMAN USERS; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; RELIABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 0034480227     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.888631     Document Type: Article

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