Designing ontological agents: An alternative to improve information retrieval in federated digital libraries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3034, Issue , 2004, Pages 155-163

  Medina, María A ^a   Sánchez, Alfredo ^b   Chávez, Alberto ^b   Benítez, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE LA MIXTECA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

GAIA METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENTITIES; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

SEARCH ENGINES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

GAIA METHODOLOGY; KEYWORDS MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGICAL AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENTITIES;

EID: 7444245129     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24681-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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