Building an expert travel agent as a software agent

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1291-1299

  Schiaffino, Silvia ^a,b   Amandi, Analía ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Content based user profiles; Expert agents; Software agents

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

COMBINED TECHNIQUES; CONTENT-BASED RECOMMENDATION; CONTENT-BASED USER PROFILES; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; EXPERT AGENTS; HYBRID APPROACH; TRAVEL AGENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 56649088301     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.11.032     Document Type: Article

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