A comprehensive agent-based architecture for intelligent information retrieval in a distributed heterogeneous environment

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-415

  Shaw, Neal G ^a   Mian, Ahmad ^b   Yadav, Surya B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b FILECONTROLCOM   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed decision making; Heterogeneous data sources; Information retrieval; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING; HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036498513     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(01)00128-2     Document Type: Article

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