Review and analysis of commercial user modeling servers for personalization on the World Wide Web

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 209-249

  Fink, Josef ^a   Kobsa, Alfred ^b  

^a HumanIT Hum Info Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; USER MODELING SERVERS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0034484385     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026597308943     Document Type: Article

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