A knowledge-based product recommendation system for e-commerce

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-36

  Prasad, Bhanu ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACF; automated collaborative filtering; B2C e commerce; case based reasoning; CBR; CBRPR; plan recognition; PR

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449110297     PISSN: 17515858     EISSN: 17515866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2007.013283     Document Type: Article

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