Knowledge representations for the interactive selling of financial services

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-166

  Felfernig, Alexander ^a,b   Isak, Klaus ^b   Kreutler, Gerold ^a   Kruggel, Thomas ^a   Teppan, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b ConfigWorks ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Financial services; Knowledge representations; Knowledge based recommenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947385720     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-006-0042-9     Document Type: Article

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