Assessing the impact of internet agent on end users' performance

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 313-323

  Hostler, R Eric ^a,c   Yoon, Victoria Y ^a   Guimaraes, Tor ^b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision quality; E commerce; Impact of internet agent; Intelligent agent systems; Internet agent; Shopbot

Indexed keywords

DECISION QUALITY; IMPACT OF INTERNET AGENT; INTELLIGENT AGENT SYSTEMS; INTERNET AGENT; SHOPBOT;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE AGENTS; VIDEODISKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 25444485417     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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