Smart shopper: An agent-based Web-mining approach to Internet shopping

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 226-237

  Liu, James ^a   You, Jane ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Fuzzy neural network; Internet shopping; Multiagent; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; WEB BROWSERS;

INTERNET SHOPPING;

INTERNET;

EID: 0037389186     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2003.809900     Document Type: Article

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