Web information seeking and retrieval in digital library contexts: Towards an intelligent agent solution

Online Information Review

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 404-412

  Detlor, Brian ^a   Arsenault, Clément ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agents; Digital libraries; Information retrieval; Internet

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SEARCH ENGINES; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEB-BASED LIBRARIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 0036459364     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520210452736     Document Type: Article

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