Combining agent technology and similarity-based reasoning for targeted E-mail services

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-56

  Loia, Vincenzo ^a   Senatore, Sabrina ^a   Sessa, Maria I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

E mail systems; Java; Logic programming; Mobile agents; Similarity relation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

E-MAIL SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; SIMILARITY RELATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 2642527960     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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