The next generation of shopbots: Semantic interoperability and personalization

Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-36

  Fasli, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77953240171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-978-6.ch002     Document Type: Chapter

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