The virtual library secretary: A user modet-based software agent

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 162-187

  Bellika, Johan Gustav ^a   Hartvigsen, Gunnar ^a   Widding, Roy Arild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agent; Neural network; User model

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; PAST AND PRESENT; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; USER MODELING; USER MODELS; VIRTUAL LIBRARIES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 10644247227     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01321174     Document Type: Article

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