Inductive machine learning for instrument development

Information and Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-55

  Torkzadeh, Gholamreza ^a   Cios, Krzysztof J ^b   Pflughoeft, Kurt A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument development; Machine learning; User satisfaction measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039685355     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(96)01061-0     Document Type: Article

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