An agent that learns to support users of a Web site

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Abbattista, Fabio ^a   Paradiso, Aldo ^b   Semeraro, Giovanni ^a   Zambetta, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b FHG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial animation; Genetic algorithms; Intelligent agents; User profiling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; SCENOGRAPHIC AGENTS MIMIC INTELLIGENT REASONING; TECHNIQUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 2442521334     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2003.05.010     Document Type: Article

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