Agent-based buddy-finding methodology for knowledge sharing

Information and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-296

  Li, Xiaoqing ^a   Montazemi, Ali R ^b   Yuan, Yufei ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Illinois ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Fuzzy logic; Information sharing; Intelligent agent; Knowledge management; P2P

Indexed keywords

BULLETIN BOARDS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FUZZY SETS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

INFORMATION SHARING; INTELLIGENT AGENT; PZP;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33644674206     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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