Simulation studies of different dimensions of users' interests and their impact on user modeling and information filtering

Information Retrieval

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-223

  Mostafa, Javed ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis ^b   Palakal, Mathew ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information filtering; Reinforcement learning; User modeling; User oriented factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442536543     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023932221048     Document Type: Article

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