Using Web Helper Agent Profiles in Query Generation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 812-818

  Somlo, Gabriel L ^a   Howe, Adele E ^a  

^a Colorado State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information agents; Query generation; User modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PORTALS; SEARCH ENGINES; VECTORS;

INFORMATION AGENTS; QUERY GENERATION; USER MODELING;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 1142293020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860705.860706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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