Design and evaluation of a multi-agent collaborative Web mining system

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 167-183

  Chau, Michael ^a   Zeng, Daniel ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^a   Huang, Michael ^a   Hendriawan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration behavior; Collaborative filtering; Collaborative information retrieval; Multi agent systems; Post retrieval analysis; Software agents; Web content mining; Web searching

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0037375152     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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