MyPYTHIA: A recommendation portal for scientific software and services

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 14, Issue 13-15, 2002, Pages 1481-1505

  Houstis, E N ^a   Catlin, A C ^a   Dhanjani, N ^a   Rice, J R ^a   Ramakrishnan, N ^b   Verykios, V ^c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Grid computing environments; Knowledge discovery; Problem solving environments; Recommender systems; Web portals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PORTALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GRID COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MYPYTHIA;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036870403     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.684     Document Type: Article

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