Just-in-time information retrieval agents

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 685-703

  Rhodes, B J ^a   Maes, P ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUST-IN-TIME RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034499162     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.393.0685     Document Type: Article

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