Improving recommendations through an assumption-based multiagent approach: An application in the tourism domain

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 14703-14714

  Lorenzi, Fabiana ^a,b   Bazzan, Ana L C ^a   Abel, Mara ^a   Ricci, Francesco ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Multiagent recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ASSUMPTIONS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; REAL SITUATION; TRAVEL PACKAGES;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052035787     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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