Shopbots: A syntactic present, a semantic future

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 69-75

  Fasli, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparison shopping; Shopbots; Web services

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ONLINE SHOPPING; SEMANTIC WEB; WEB SERVICES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33751355405     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2006.134     Document Type: Article

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