MASACAD: A multi-agent approach to information customization for the purpose of academic advising of students

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 746-771

  Hamdi, Mohamed Salah ^a  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

E Learning; Expert systems; Information customization; Machine learning; Multi agents; Neural networks; User modeling; Web mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; E-LEARNING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION CUSTOMIZATION; USER MODELING; WEB MINING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047272691     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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