QueryTracker: An agent for tracking persistent information needs

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 488-495

  Somlo, Gabriel ^a   Howe, Adele E ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; SEARCH ENGINES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION NEEDS; PORTFOLIO MANAGERS; QUERY SUBMISSION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 4544343942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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