Learning for automatic personalization in a semantic taxonomy-based meta-search agent

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 150-173

  Kim, Wooju ^a   Kerschberg, Larry ^b   Scime, Anthony ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Information retrieval; Machine learning; Meta search engine; Personalization; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

META-SEARCH ENGINE; PERSONALIZATION; TAXONOMY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0742327552     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-4223(02)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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