Time Frames: Temporal augmentation of the news

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 597-616

  Koen, D B ^a   Bender, W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEMPORAL AUGMENTATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034514437     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.393.0597     Document Type: Article

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