A multiagent system for assisting citizens in their search of e-government services

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 686-698

  De Meo, Pasquale ^a   Quattrone, Giovanni ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

E Government systems; Multiagent systems; Personalized search of services; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; HELIUM; TECHNOLOGY;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; E GOVERNMENTS; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; E-GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES; INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; NEW SERVICES; PERSONALIZED SEARCH OF SERVICES; PROACTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT;

EID: 50649116359     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.923889     Document Type: Article

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