Identifying and tracking changing interests

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-53

  Crabtree, I Barry ^a   Soltysiak, Stuart J ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interest drift; Learning user interests; Personalised services; User profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342919763     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007990050035     Document Type: Article

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