The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 246-258

  Wildemuth, Barbara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

MAXIMAL REPEATING PATTERNS; SEARCH TACTIC; STATE TRANSITION MATRICES;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0842343542     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10367     Document Type: Article

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