Searching Social Networks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 65-72

  Yu, Bin ^a   Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Referral systems; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORKS; REFERRAL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VECTOR SPACE MODEL (VSM);

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 1142305174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860586.860587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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