Deployment of personalized e-catalogues: An agent-based framework integrated with XML metadata and user models

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-228

  Liu, Duen Ren ^a   Lin, Yuh Jaan ^a   Chen, Chung Min ^b   Huang, Ya Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; ONLINE SEARCHING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEB BROWSERS; XML;

USER MODELS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0035412327     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jnca.2001.0132     Document Type: Article

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