User modeling for personalized Web search with self-organizing map

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 494-507

  Ding, Chen ^a   Patra, Jagdish C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SET THEORY; USER INTERFACES;

PERSONALIZED WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCHING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33947515335     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20497     Document Type: Article

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