Purpose-based expert finding in a portfolio management system

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 548-561

  Niu, Xiaolin ^a   McCalla, Gordon ^a   Vassileva, Julita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anytime; Decentralized; Expert finding; Expert modeling; Just in time user modeling; Purposes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANYTIME; DECENTRALIZED; EXPERT FINDING; EXPERT MODELING; JUST-IN-TIME USER MODELING; PURPOSES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 8344279480     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0824-7935.2004.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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