A taxonomy of recommender agents on the internet

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-330

  Montaner, Miquel ^a   López, Beatriz ^a   De La Rosa, Josep Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agents; Information filtering; Personalization; Profile exploitation; Profile generation; Profile maintenance; Recommender systems; Taxonomy; User modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA HANDLING; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SORTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDER AGENTS; PROFILE EXPLOITATION; PROFILE GENERATION; PROFILE MAINTENANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0344519548     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022850703159     Document Type: Article

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